Moscow Concerned With Kiev, West Distorting Content of Minsk Agreements

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Moscow is ready to facilitate realization of Minsk agreements on Ukraine reconciliation, Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

"Russia is ready to contribute to implementation of the agreements reached," the statement said.

Moscow once again urged the "parties of the Ukrainian conflict to implement their obligations strictly."

Russia is concerned with the fact that the representatives of Kiev and a number of Western countries started to alter the content of the Minsk agreements.

"We are really concerned that an official Ukraine representative, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, as well as some Western countries, particularly the United States, in fact, joined the opinion of the radical nationalists in the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian parliament] and began to distort the content of the agreements reached in Minsk," the ministry said.

Such statements put under question implementation of the measures toward Ukraine reconciliation approved by the leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine, the ministry added.

Russia has repeatedly urged parties to the conflict in Ukraine to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis, and was involved in various intergovernmental negotiations to help solve the crisis in the country.

The leaders of Russia, France, Germany, and Ukraine held a 16-hour summit in Minsk on Wednesday and early Thursday that resulted in a new political deal aimed at stopping the deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine.