Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with Big Game Channel One While the former Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, suggested in her meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin a few years ago that Russia and Ukraine negotiate directly, her last words on the Minsk agreements did not show “insight” and “Rusophobia”.
According to the minister, a few years before leaving the post of chancellor, Merkel said in a meeting with Putin that Russia should negotiate with Ukraine, since “he has decided everything in Donbass”.
As Lavrov said, the president at that moment told the chancellor about the need to resolve the issue of the special status of Donbass through a direct dialogue between Kyiv, Donetsk and Luhansk.
“So it’s not an enlightenment at all, and it’s not a last-minute anti-Russian desire to keep up with the accelerating train,” said the Foreign Minister.
Merkel earlier in an interview with Die Zeit statedThat the Minsk agreements gave Ukraine time to win and become stronger. According to him, all the participants of the agreements understood that the conflict in Ukraine was only suspended, and the problem remained unresolved.