“He put himself in a corner.” Lavrov criticized the Poroshenko
The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko “painted themselves into a corner like a completely irresponsible politician.”
He said this in an interview with National interest, reports UNIAN.
Lavrov said that the biggest mistake Poroshenko that after the signing of the Minsk agreements in February 2015, he did not seize the moment and convince the Parliament and the opposition that it is a bargain, supported by the EU.
“Instead, after returning to Kyiv he began to apologize to the opposition, saying they should not take it seriously that he has given no commitments, which were of a legal nature legally binding – they have it all wrong, and all that. He put himself in the corner like a completely irresponsible politician who signed something, and a week after returning home said that he didn’t sign,” – said Lavrov.
In his opinion, “the Ukrainian opposition felt that this was his weakness, and began to highlight his position all that had some rational grain”.
“The fact that he is in constant contact with President Vladimir Putin, sometimes they talk on the phone, talking on the sidelines of the meeting in the “Normandy format” during the leaders meetings (the last meeting took place in Berlin in October last year), and I have the impression that he was trying to be constructive, to find ways of returning to the implementation of the Minsk agreements. But the next day, he returned to Kiev, or goes abroad and makes the enemy completely and totally unfair public statements,” – said the Russian foreign Minister.
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Recall that Lavrov said that Russia wants from Ukraine. According to him, “Russia is a peaceful state that has no territorial claims against its neighbors and is interested, that it was surrounded with trustworthy countries that thrive with whom we’d been building partnerships in the spirit of good neighborliness.”
“At the same time, our efforts continue to be directed not to allow “hot heads” in Kiev to start in the South-East of the country a new round of violence. In any case, the residents of Donbas in trouble we will not leave,” he said.
Lavrov stressed that Russia will continue to work to Kiev to stop the blockade of Donbass and began the full implementation of the Minsk agreements”.