Lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko held a private meeting with leaders of Russian-backed separatists who control of parts of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts in Ukraine, a Ukrainian news website has reported.

Savchenko met with Alexander Zakharchenko and Ihor Plotnitskiy, the separatist leaders in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, respectively, when all three visited Minsk on Dec. 7 – the same day Minsk peace agreement official negotiators were meeting in the Belarusian capital.