“Unfortunately, in terms of inciting Ukrainian nationalism, neo-Nazism, France plays one of the initiative roles.
We are sad to see this,” he said.
According to Lavrov, Paris "demands to wage the war to a victorious end" and achieve the defeat of Russia.
“This only means that all our long-term appeals to the West with a call to negotiate on an equal footing were not only not heard, but deliberately ignored,” the minister added.
He also noted the inaction of Paris and Berlin in matters of encouraging Ukraine to implement the Minsk agreements.
Earlier, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that the current situation in Ukraine was caused by the fact that the Minsk agreements were never implemented.