11 Jul 2016 20:05

Minsk agreements not deadlocked - Ukrainian foreign minister

KYIV. July 11 (Interfax) - Implementation of the Minsk agreements is being thwarted by Russia's reluctance to implement security arrangements, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

"It is not the Minsk agreements that have really deadlocked. We have a problem with Russia's reluctance to any of the security arrangements. Russia is doing so absolutely deliberately so as to create a quasi-Russian protectorate in Donbas as a result, and attempt to integrate this quasi-Russian protectorate back into Ukraine," the minister told a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.

Russia is thus trying to "break [Ukraine] apart," he said.