Russian FM accuses Germany and France of "killing" Minsk agreements

Sergey Lavrov,  Russian Foreign Minister

© APA | Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister

# 18 July 2022 10:51 (UTC +04:00)

"Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz is trying in vain when he demands from Russia a new agreement on guarantees of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine after the failure of the Minsk agreements," stated in an article published on Monday by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for the Izvestia newspaper, APA reports citing AW Journal.

“When Olaf Scholz now demands to force Russia to agree to an agreement on guarantees of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, he is trying in vain. There was already such an agreement – the Minsk agreements, which just killed Berlin and Paris, shielding Kyiv, which openly refused to comply with them. So the staging is over, finita la comedy,” said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Lavrov stressed that the Minsk agreements were another staged by the West, as the former leader of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko recently stated bluntly. According to the ex-president, Kyiv was not going to fulfill these agreements, the Ukrainian side needed them in order to “beat time” and “build the power of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” “The price of this staging is still being paid by the Ukrainian people, whom for many years the West forced to come to terms with life under the yoke of the Russophobic neo-Nazi regime,” the Russian minister added.

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