To distort Russia's position on Ukraine, this is why Moscow published the correspondence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov with the Foreign Ministers of France and Germany Jean-Yves Le Drian and Heiko Maas about the possibility of holding a ministerial meeting in the Normandy format. This was announced by Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov.
The publication of Russian Foreign Ministry correspondence regarding the organization of the summit in the “Normandy” format is an unconventional but brilliant and decisive step for diplomacy, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in connection with the distortion of Moscow's position on the negotiations in the Normand format, published correspondence between the head of the department, Sergei Lavrov, and the heads of the French and German foreign ministries, in order to prevent speculation on the subject.