BUDAPEST. Feb 2 (Interfax) - The current Ukrainian authorities want to stop implementing the Minsk Agreements, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"I think today's Ukrainian government is not prepared at all for implementation of the Minsk Agreements and is looking for a pretext to refuse their implementation," Putin told a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest on Thursday.
"This too would be helped by a development of the conflict [in southeastern Ukraine]," the Russian president said.
Hopefully, "sensible forces within Ukraine proper, as well as those keen on resolving this sort of issues politically will not let the situation in southeastern Ukraine evolve according to a worst-case scenario, but on the contrary, concentrate all their attention and efforts on implementing the Minsk agreements," the president said.