Will The U.S. And Russia Conduct One-On-One Negotiations To Find A Solution To The Ukraine Crisis?

Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nulland. Vestnik Kavkaza

TASS: Talks between Putin's aide Surkov and US Nuland may become full-fledged format — diplomat

On January 15, Vladislav Surkov and Victoria Nuland held substantial consultations in Kaliningrad in search for compromises on Ukraine

MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. The meeting between Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland was useful, and this could become a full-fledged format of Russian-US contacts, US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft said Thursday.

"We thought that it was a useful meeting and… our call's to try to support the process, the Normandy process, and we are very carefully coordinating our work with Germany and France," Tefft said in an interview with three Russian news agencies. "I think nobody knows at this point whether there will be extra meetings, there may be, as I said before I think that the key point is to implement this agreement, and we’ll do what it takes to support early and full implementation of the Minsk Agreements," he said.

On January 15, Surkov and Nuland held substantial consultations in Kaliningrad in search for compromises on Ukraine.

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WNU Editor: The U.S. is making it very clear that having these talks will not replace the  "Normandy process" .... US Not Trying to Replace Normandy Format for Ukraine Talks - Tefft (Sputnik). But these talks were held, and even though no details were released to the public, they were apparently successful.