He urged "not to confuse the plots" in the situation with the emergency landing of the Ryanair aircraft in Belarus and the settlement in Donbass.
“<...> If the Ukrainian side, of course, does not want to find an excuse to completely evade fulfilling its duties.
I hope that at least France and Germany, as co-authors of the Minsk agreements, will not allow this to be done, ”RIA Novosti quotes Lavrov.
Earlier, the first president of Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group Leonid Kravchuk proposed to move the platform for negotiations on Donbass to Switzerland or Finland.
At the end of April, Lavrov noted that the team of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was “wriggling as best it could”, trying to turn the Minsk agreements “upside down”.