Normandy Format

Putin Blasts Merkel Over Ukraine for Complicity in ‘Kiev’s destructive acts’

21st Century Wire says…
In a summary release of a phone call between Russian President and German Chancellor from Saturday February 7th, Vladimir Putin stressed that ‘Kiev officials are trying to sabotage the execution of the Minsk Agreements and use the Normandy format to conceal their destructive acts.’
This phone call comes after a recent flare up in violence near Avdeevka in eastern Ukraine.

Furious Putin rips into Merkel over Ukraine, accuses her of complicity in ‘Kiev’s destructive acts ‘

The Kremlin has released a summary of a telephone conversation between Russian President Putin and German Chancellor Merkel, which took place yesterday Saturday 7th February 2017.
Note that the summary does not say who initiated the call.  The content of the summary however suggests strongly that it was Putin.
The summary, which is unusually detailed, reads as follows