The Russian foreign Ministry accused Kiev of sabotage and provocations.
The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov accused Ukraine of disrupting the implementation of the Minsk agreements, as well as the armed provocation on the line of contact in Donbas, in order not to fulfill the political part of the agreement.
“We have great concern what is happening with the implementation of the Minsk agreements. First of all, as a result of sabotage by Kiev authorities. There are plenty of examples. This applies to the complete sabotage of the political process and the organization on a regular basis armed provocations on the contact line in order to have an excuse not to fulfill the political part of the package of measures approved in Minsk,” he said.
According to Lavrov, is nothing more constructive Minsk agreements on settling the situation in Ukraine is to develop will fail.
“The President (Vladimir Putin) said, as the Chancellor (Angela) Merkel, among other things, that, despite all this, the alternative to the Minsk agreements, we now can’t see anything more constructive now to develop will fail,” Lavrov said.
He proposed to continue working in the framework of the Normandy format at the level of leaders at the Ministerial level, expert level and in the framework of the contact group, which presents at the same table Ukraine, representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk, together with representatives of the Russian Federation and the OSCE.
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