Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said that Russia violates the Minsk agreement.
“Ukraine needs peace and the Ukrainian state, the president and the government are doing their best in order to reach a peaceful solution to the conflict in the east… The Minsk agreement… is observed by Ukraine and grossly violated by the Russian side,” Yatsenyuk said at a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Kyiv on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
The main points of the Minsk agreement have not been observed, including the need for the Kyiv authorities to re-establish control over the Ukrainian-Russian border, measures to stop weapons deliveries to illegal armed units in the country’s east, as well as the withdrawal of Russian forces, he said.
“Since there is no agenda other than the Minsk agreements, Russia will have to fulfill it,” the Ukrainian prime minister said.
Yatsenyuk reiterated that he sees the Geneva format as the most acceptable for resolving the crisis in Ukrainian-Russian relations and de-escalating the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern regions.
