Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock at a press conference following talksMOSCOW, 18 Jan Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock went through the Minsk agreements point by point during talks in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Lavrov and Burbock held talks in Moscow on Tuesday. After them, the Russian Foreign Minister noted that Russia hopes that Germany and France will force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to fulfill his promises under the Minsk agreements.Burbock recalled the suffering that Germany brought to the peoples of the USSR «Of course, we went over international topics. This is a question of negotiations around security guarantees, this, of course, is the unacceptability of NATO actions for us, the expansion (of the alliance) and, in general, the rhetoric that comes from there. This and Ukraine. Literally, I can say that we went through the Minsk agreements point by point,» Zakharova said on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. and strength. Moscow does not rule out that the Ukrainian authorities are hatching plans for a forceful solution to the conflict in the southeast with the connivance of Western countries, which continue to «pump» Kiev with weapons and send military instructors. In addition, Kiev blocks work in the contact group, refuses direct dialogue with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and develops draft laws that directly contradict the Minsk agreements, for example, a draft law on the transition period. At the same time, Kiev insists on the need to hold a meeting of the «Norman» format, however, Moscow believes that a meeting for the sake of a meeting is not needed and Ukraine must first comply with the decisions of the last summit, which took place in December 2019. >Lavrov responded to Burbock's demands for the relocation of the Russian army
