The next meeting of the three-party contact group on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine-OSCE format is expected to be held in Minsk on Friday, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry told Interfax.

"Such a meeting is planned," a Foreign Ministry said. At the same time, he said the venue and time of the meeting are currently unknown.

The Russian embassy in Minsk told Interfax: "We currently have no information that Russian official Mikhail Zurabov is arriving in Minsk tomorrow."