Former senior officials from the United Kingdom, France and Germany met secretly in July in Vienna with an unidentified former Kremlin official to discuss possible terms for peace negotiations over Ukraine. Bloomberg 's sources did not disclose the identity of the former Kremlin official who participated in the talks. Vienna was at least one of two places where former European and Russian officials have met behind closed doors in recent months. Separate talks between former German and Russian officials took place in mid-July in Baku. The Kremlin has so far not publicly commented on reports about the Vienna meeting.