Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was the initiator of the development of a UN Security Council resolution on the mandatory implementation of the Minsk agreements. This was stated by the representative of the department Maria Zakharova.
“All the talk about whether Russia planned to implement the Minsk agreements or not is broken by the fact that Sergei Lavrov personally initiated the development of a UN Security Council resolution making their implementation mandatory,” she wrote on Telegram.
The first Minsk agreements were signed in September 2014 by representatives of the trilateral contact group (Russia, Ukraine, OSCE). The second Minsk agreements were signed in 2015, they were also attended by representatives of Germany and France.
On the eve of the ex-assistant to the President of Russia, Vladislav Surkov, said that when developing the Minsk agreements, he did not count on their implementation. Commenting on his words, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that during the discussion of the agreements, Russia made efforts “to force both the Ukrainian side, and Berlin, and Paris to still take the path of implementing the obligations” that they had undertaken.
Former French President Francois Hollande said that the Minsk agreements helped Ukraine to strengthen its military potential. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the agreements were an attempt to “give Ukraine time” to “become stronger”. Vladimir Putin considered this an admission of deception by the West. Former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Stepashin claimed that Mrs. Merkel persuaded the Russian president to sign the Minsk agreements.
About the Russian military operation in Ukraine and its consequences – in the material “Kommersant”.
