MOSCOW, February 15 Russia is in practice the only guarantor of the Minsk agreements, Germany and France are leading Andrey Klimov, head of the Federation Council Commission for the Protection of the State Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. stressed that all seven years since the signing of the agreement, Russia has been doing nothing but calling on the NATO countries led by the United States «not to escalate military hysteria.» Klimov recalled that in accordance with the Minsk agreements, under the control of the OSCE, foreign weapons and mercenaries should be withdrawn from the territory of Ukraine. However, this is not the case in practice, he noted. The senator stressed that it is Russia that calls on Kiev to comply with the Minsk agreements, saying that the Kiev authorities are responsible for their citizens in the southeast. «Did the plenipotentiary delegations of Germany and France come to the southeast from the other side (from the DPR and LPR)? Not once,» Klimov said. » />13:51Volodin explained the adoption of the draft resolution on the recognition of the DPR and LPR»We provide the residents of Donbass with humanitarian aid. Does anyone else do this?» their diplomatic missions in Western Ukraine». According to Klimov, some kind of «quasi-state formation» is being formed in Western Ukraine. He added that Western Ukraine did not immediately become part of modern Ukraine.
