“We call on the Western capitals, which are pumping Ukraine with weapons, primarily Washington, but also Berlin and Paris, as participants in the Normandy format, to stop encouraging the militarization of the country,” she said at a briefing with reporters.
Zakharova said that Moscow advocates using the influence of countries to return Kiev "to the path of achieving a lasting peace in the Donbass by political and diplomatic means."
Earlier, the plenipotentiary of Russia in the contact group for resolving the situation in eastern Ukraine, Boris Gryzlov, said that Kiev was trying to provoke Donbass to resume hostilities.