MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - Moscow hopes that the United States, Germany and France will understand that the current situation is a stalemate and will eventually exert influence on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"The only thing that all our Western partners do is highlight the need for the implementation of the Minsk Agreements. It is Russia that they are calling to do so, in fact fencing out the Ukrainian regime and paying no attention to the responsibility that lies on it. So, Mr. Zelensky has nothing to worry about. So far, to our deep regret, neither the U.S. nor Germany or France do not exert serious influence on him, but I hope that they will understand that the current line they are taking is a dead end, and that they will do everything necessary so that their words that the Minsk Agreements have no alternative and that that provides for a special status of Donbas will not just remain on paper. This was promised to us," Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.