MOSCOW, Nov 17 (Reuters) - A summit between France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine to attempt to determine the contention in eastern Ukraine is conceivable this year however no date has been concurred, a Kremlin associate said on Sunday. 

France said on Friday that the purported Normandy summit will occur in Paris on Dec. 9, yet Moscow has not affirmed either the plans or the date. 

"I think there will be an opportunity to arrange (the summit) this year. I can't state the accurate date, since it is still under dialog, be that as it may, clearly, this year," Kremlin assistant Yuri Ushakov told a news appear on nearby TV arrange Russia-1. 

On the off chance that it occurs, the Normandy summit, named after a gathering in the northwestern French area of the pioneers of the four nations in 2014, will happen following an achievement in relations among Russia and Ukraine. 

Moscow and Kiev traded detainees in September and this month Ukrainian government powers and Russian-supported dissidents started pulling back from a town in the contested Donbass district. 

Russia started moving three caught Ukrainian naval force delivers on Sunday, Reuters detailed, after a Russian paper said Moscow would return them to Ukraine in front of a summit. 

The summit plans are not straightforwardly attached to enactment giving Donbass an extraordinary status, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov said during a similar Sunday news appear, Interfax revealed. (Revealing by Andrey Kuzmin, altering by Louise Heavens and Alexander Smith)