Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that Ukraine should be forced to comply with the Minsk Agreements must make her do it. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the air of the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin “advised not to leave Ukraine without the supervision of partners.
” If she [Ukraine] is left alone with her, with her conscience, of course, she will not do anything. It must be forced, for this is precisely what the Normandy format was created for, “the Russian Foreign Minister said.
He added that Germany and France” are still skimping on their obligations, “but Russia is not abandoning attempts to attract attention to the situation.
Earlier, Lavrov said that the United States is ready to assist Ukraine's implementation of the Minsk agreements to resolve the crisis. According to the Russian minister, the capabilities of the American side can be used for the peace process in the Ukrainian southeast. He also noted that the United States had assured Russia that it did not want to undermine the work of the Normandy format with its efforts to settle the situation in Ukraine.