"To date, Kiev has withdrawn from about 50 agreements, memorandums, decisions (within the CIS. -

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)," he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to Pankin, at the same time, politically motivated decisions of the Kiev authorities are quite pragmatic and are taken on a profit-driven basis.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previously stated Ukraine's public withdrawal from the Minsk agreements and noted that Moscow is alarmed by the stubbornness with which Berlin and Paris indulge Kiev's desire not to comply with the provisions of the document.

Russian President Vladimir Putin claims that Ukraine demonstratively fails to comply with the Minsk agreements, and therefore the crisis is "far from resolved."