In Berlin, on the night of February 11, negotiations at the level of political advisers to the leaders of the countries participating in the Normandy format ended, which lasted more than 9 hours.

Following the meeting, there was no breakthrough in the peaceful settlement of the military conflict in Donbas.

The Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak, who took part in them, held his first briefing.

This has been the second meeting since the beginning of this year. The talks between representatives of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia lasted more than nine hours.

During the negotiations, Andriy Yermak stressed that Ukraine is consistently committed to a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict. Hence, the Ukrainian party will continue to take measures to intensify the work of all existing negotiation formats in order to facilitate the peace process.

Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak hopes to unblock humanitarian issues at the next meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group for the Peaceful Settlement of the Situation in the East of Ukraine. He said this at a briefing in Berlin after a meeting of political advisers to the leaders of the Normandy format.

"We hope that the next meeting of the TCG will unblock humanitarian issues - the release of detainees, the opening of checkpoints, which have been prepared for more than a year by the Ukrainian side," said Andriy Yermak.

According to him, it is also very important that all participants of the meeting of advisers in the Normandy format expressed their full commitment to a comprehensive ceasefire in Donbas.

The Head of the President's Office thanked the German side for organizing these talks. He noted that the next meeting of political advisers to the leaders of the Normandy Four is to take place shortly.

"The Ukrainian party is ready for a constructive dialogue," Andriy Yermak stressed.

All parties reaffirmed their willingness to continue negotiations in the Normandy format, and also agreed on the necessity to unblock the work of the Trilateral Contact Group.