Russia will not negotiate on a new meeting in Normandy format, while Kiev will not cease to sabotage the previous solution to the Donbas. About this on air of the First channel said the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov.
Next week will be talks between the foreign Ministers, but Lavrov does not believe that they will lead to any result.
This videoconference will discuss the implementation of the agreements reached last year in Paris. While you are only one – was the exchange of detainees between Kiev and the Donbass republics.
“Everything that was discussed in Paris, much to our regret, not met, through no fault or lack of good will on the part of Donetsk and Lugansk,” – said Lavrov.
According to him, the statistics of the OSCE shows that the ceasefire is violated by the Ukrainian military. The President Zelensky is unable to perform the Minsk agreement and withdraw the troops, because in Ukraine he is opposed by political forces who want the war in the Donbass.
In addition, Zelensky require the removal of a supposedly located in the LC and the DNI of the Russian troops and do not want to discuss the state special status of the Donbass republics.
We are talking about sabotage Minsk as Kiev and Paris agreements, Lavrov said.
“We have yet to see him allowed to move in the direction of a bona fide, honest implementation of the Minsk package of measures Feb 2015. It’s unfortunate,” said Lavrov.
Earlier, the Rambler reported that in Kiev called a provocation in the Kerch Strait “combat mission”.