Normandy Format

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Normandy Format
Meeting in the Normandy Format, Paris, 9 December 2019
Membership	France Germany Russia Ukraine
History
• 70th Anniversary of Operation Overlord	6 June 2014
• Minsk agreements	August 2014 – February 2015
• Russian invasion of Ukraine begins	24 February 2022

The Normandy Format (French: Format Normandie), also known as the Normandy contact group or Normandy Four, was a grouping of states who met between 2014 and 2022 in an effort to resolve the war in Donbas and the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. The four countries who make up the group—Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and France—first met informally in 2014 during the 70th anniversary of D-Day celebrations in Normandy, France.^[1] The group had a substantial role in mediating the Minsk agreements between 2014 and 2015 while further meetings in 2022 failed to deescalate rising tensions prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.