BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the best way of improving the humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine is to respect the cease-fire.
“The best way of improving humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine is to stop the violation of the Minsk agreement and to respect the ceasefire. And we have seen that separatists and Russia are not doing that,” he said at a press conference in Brussels on Monday when asked to comment on the recent sending of another so-called humanitarian convoy to Donbas by Russia without permission of the Ukrainian government.
“Russia is fueling the conflict by providing support, equipment and all the kinds of support for the separatists and thereby undermining and violating the ceasefire and also the efforts to create the peaceful and negotiated solution,” Stoltenberg said.
“Different convoys which we have seen crossing the border reminds us of how this border is not respected. And part of the Minsk agreement was to respect and to monitor the international border between Ukraine and Russia and the passing of both military equipment… trucks which are said to be trucks with humanitarian aid are passing this border without the acceptance of the Ukrainian government so it’s just the example that this border is the border which is not respected in the way it should eb respected,” he concluded.
