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French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a press conference after talks in Kiev. Archive photoMOSCOW, 12 Feb. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky refused to publicly guarantee Emmanuel Macron that Kiev would not start hostilities in the Donbass, which «set up» his French colleague, ex-deputy of the Rada Yevgeny Muraev said on the air of the NASH TV channel. According to him, Macron arrived in Kiev with «a unique offer» that would speed up the implementation of the Minsk agreements. However, at a press conference after the meeting of the heads of state, «they didn't say a word about it.» Did you pay attention to Macron's posture? He literally stood and waited for Zelensky to say something. I'm one hundred percent sure that he wanted guarantees from the Ukrainian side of not resolving the conflict in Donbass by military means,» Muraev said. The Ukrainian politician concluded that the country's president had not clarified his position on this issue in the public field before the French leader.Medvedchuk told why Zelensky refused the Minsk agreements Macron met with Zelensky on Tuesday in Kiev. Western politicians, including US President Joe Biden, have repeatedly spoken out in support of the Minsk agreements. Biden, following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva in June 2021, said that he had agreed to support a package of documents at a meeting with Putin: “we will continue diplomacy along the lines of the Minsk agreements.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later said that Biden at the summit in Geneva himself told the Russian president that he wanted to help with the implementation of the Minsk agreements, including with the autonomous status of Donbass. In addition, according to Lavrov, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and CIA Director William Burns directly confirmed the need to implement the Minsk agreements when they contacted the Russian leadership. “Looked like a fool”: in Ukraine they were disappointed in Zelensky’s answer to Putin