The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France, during a phone conversation on Friday, made the decision to meet in person in Berlin, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

"I hung up after talking to my colleagues from Germany, France and Russia. The only achievement is that we have agreed to meet in person in Berlin. We continue working," he said on Twitter.

Klimkin said later: "Normandy will come to Berlin again. We will meet with the ministers on January 12."

A source in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine that the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France may also meet in Astana next week. "If the foreign ministers reach certain agreements in Berlin on January 12, everything is possible," the source said.

On December 29, 2014, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the next top-level meeting in the Normandy format on the settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine will be held in Astana on January 15.

Sources in the EU said on January 9 a meeting between the presidents in the "Normandy format" has not been confirmed yet.

The "Normandy format" of negotiations envisages the participation by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany.