The Russian Foreign Ministry has dismissed reports that a meeting of deputy foreign ministers of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine (Normandy Group) had been disrupted through Russia's fault.

"We would like to note that this information is untrue because there was no agreement on such a meeting in Paris this week in the first place. There was only a proposal to consider such a possibility. We received no concrete proposals for the agenda of the meeting," the ministry's Department of Information and Press said in a commentary posted on the ministry's website.

"Moreover, in their recent telephone conversation, Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov and Pavlo Klimkin registered their mutual understanding that at this stage a meeting of deputy foreign ministers in the 'Normandy format' appears to be premature because the parties should wait for the results of the topical working subgroups set up as part of efforts to implement the Minsk agreements, which were to meet again in Minsk on June 2 this year," the commentary reads.

"On May 27 a number of Ukrainian media outlets, citing an anonymous source in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, reported that that the Normandy-format meeting of deputy foreign ministers had ostensibly been 'disrupted' through Russia's fault," the ministry said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry urged its Ukrainian counterparts "to refrain from gross and incompetent disinformation which does not help the positive dynamic of efforts to settle the Ukrainian crisis."