MOSCOW. Feb 5 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has called against giving 100% negative evaluations to the meeting between representatives of the contact group on the situation in Ukraine held in Mink last weekend.
"It would not call it a failure," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told reporters at a briefing in Moscow.
"The fact that no documents were issued at the Minsk meeting does not mean at all that the negotiations failed,' he said.
At the same time, he admitted that "the negotiations went very difficult and everyone saw that the DPR and LPR representative authorized to hold these negotiations waited for the Kyiv officials to arrive for a long time, and the negotiations themselves were not easy."
"I still hope that the process will continue," the diplomat said.
Lukashevich refrained from commenting on the consultations, which Denis Pushilin, who represents the DPR in the contact group, says he had in Moscow.
"I do not know the details and I can't say if such contacts have taken place and with whom they took place," Lukashevich said.