Ukrainian representative to the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kuchma hopes that the 'Normandy Four' foreign ministers will coordinate the Donbas settlement roadmap but says he has no illusions.

"I am still counting on the foreign ministers' roadmap," Kuchma told reporters in Kyiv on Tuesday.

He said he doubted the possibility to elaborate and to approve the roadmap within a month (the period prescribed by the 'Normandy Four' leaders).

"To my knowledge, they [the foreign ministers] are expected to meet in the end of this month. However, I have not heard either party expressing the assuredness that we will move in the right direction," he said.

In his words, the foreign ministers have more rights than Trilateral Contact Group members.

"Being a representative of the Trilateral Contact Group, I, personally, suggest that they deliver results. Let them not shift what you are supposed to do onto the Minsk Contact Group. And this is [an attempt] to step aside and to point a finger at someone else. The Trilateral Contact Group has heard its fair share of 'praise'," Kuchma said.

He also noted that the roadmap text was being coordinated by advisors rather than by foreign ministers.

"Whenever advisors are involved, each of them brings a roadmap of one's own and all [those] documents are different, I mean, especially those of Ukraine and Russia," Kuchma said.

"Our stance is known and clear. But when will it all happen? We will be waiting," he said.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on the phone on November 21 that the 'Normandy Four' foreign ministers would meet in late November.