Moscow. January 26. INTERFAX - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in response to a question about the possibility of supplying certain types of weapons to the self-proclaimed republics of southeastern Ukraine, said that Moscow stands for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, and the West should encourage Kiev to do so.
"We are supporters of the unconditional implementation of the Minsk agreements, which Ukraine is currently sabotaging," Lavrov told reporters in the State Duma on Wednesday, responding to a request from Interfax to comment on the statement of the Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, Andrei Turchak, who had previously expressed the opinion that Moscow should supply the LPR and DPR with separate types of weapons.
According to Lavrov, Moscow hopes that the West will ensure Kiev's implementation of the Minsk agreements.
"The Western curators of the Ukrainian regime assured us - including the Americans, by the way, at Putin's meeting with Biden in Geneva in June - that they would ensure Kiev's fulfillment of its obligations under the package of measures that was signed in Minsk in 2015. First of all, with regard to the special status of Donbass. I proceed from the fact that this obligation lies with the West and it must ensure Kiev's implementation of the Minsk agreements. Then all questions will disappear. And I really hope that it will be so," Lavrov said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Turchak said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel that in conditions when NATO countries supply lethal weapons to Ukraine on a large scale and send their military instructors, he believes it is right that Russia supplies the LPR and the DPR with separate types of weapons.
