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KYIV. Dec 10 (Interfax) - The Normandy-format summit in Paris on December 9 has broken the impasse in a settlement process in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chairman Dmytro Razumkov said.
"This is the first but an important step that has revived this process, which has been in a coma over the past several years. I hope this would really enable us to regain the temporarily occupied territories, and we would be able to say some time later that all goals and objectives mentioned by the president and his team have been attained," Razumkov told journalists at the 3rd Ukrainian Women's Congress in Kyiv on Tuesday.
The public will have a chance to learn more on the essence of the agreements reached in Paris after President Volodymyr Zelensky returns to Ukraine, he said.
"A lot has already been said, and I think a lot more has yet to be said. This also includes the issue of Crimea, which was voiced during the Normandy-format meeting. I don't remember any other Ukrainian politicians to have brought up this issue at such meetings," Razumkov said.
President Zelensky and his team have yet to go a long way toward ending the war in Donbas and regaining the "occupied territories," but it is clear already now that Zelensky did not cross any "red lines," he said.