Russian Foreign Minister Sergei LavrovMOSCOW, Jan 28Only the United States can force Kiev to comply with Minsk agreements on Donbass, and Moscow will be satisfied if this happens, but so far it is hard to believe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. «If Washington, I want to believe, because I and (US Secretary of State) Anthony Blinken confirmed that they want to help implement the Minsk agreements, his deputies spoke about the same thing… If they force Kiev (to comply with the Minsk agreements, — ed.), because I think that no one else can do this, we will, of course, be satisfied with such a result. But so far, it’s hard to believe in it,” Lavrov said in an interview with Sputnik, Ekho Moskvy, Govorit Moskva and Komsomolskaya Pravda radio stations. “Kiev realized that Berlin and Paris would not force him to comply with the Minsk agreements, that’s how said (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky, that we do not like the Minsk agreements, but they are important because they allow us to maintain Western sanctions against Russia, that's all. Here is naked cynicism, nothing more. But they understand that now they can do everything,» the minister said in an interview with Sputnik, Ekho Moskvy, Govorit Moskva and Komsomolskaya Pravda radio stations. He added that now the United States is using Zelensky and his regime in Russophobic undertakings to escalate tensions within Ukraine.
