Earlier this month, the Kremlin’s press service said that the three leaders agreed during a phone conversation to hold a joint meeting to discuss the Ukrainian conflict on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit in China due to be held on September 4-5.
"We do not have any information on that at this time," a spokesperson for Merkel's chancellery said.
Kiev launched a military operation in the country's east in April 2014 after the local residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions refused to recognize new Ukrainian authorities, which came to power after the coup earlier the same year.
In February 2015, Kiev and the two regions reached a ceasefire deal after talks brokered by the leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine – the so-called Normandy format — in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. Despite the Minsk peace accords, both sides to the conflict have continued to blame each other for multiple ceasefire violations.
