“I would like to hope that the new Ukrainian leadership will not continue the disastrous course of the Poroshenko regime and will be able to convert its existing credibility into real business of establishing civil peace in Ukraine,” the foreign minister said in an interview with the Arguments and Facts newspaper.
According to him, the separation of forces and means of the parties in the Village of Luganskaya, which began at the end of June, proves that if there is political will, progress can be achieved.
Lavrov also hopes that Kiev’s statements about the readiness to fulfill the Minsk agreements will become a practical policy after the elections to the Verkhovna Rada.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow would be ready for a constructive dialogue with Kiev after the new leader of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, begins to fulfill his election promises.