12 Jan 2015 14:39

West must put pressure on "party of war" in Kyiv - Lavrov

MOSCOW. Jan 12 (Interfax) - Russia will continue demanding that the West should pressure the "party of war" in Kyiv and prevent a military scenario in eastern Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"Regardless of what is happening in Paris, Syria or Libya and elsewhere, we will demand from our Western partners, who have much more influence over the Ukrainian government than anyone else, that they should sort out these plans and prevent 'the party of war' in Kyiv from crashing all the fragile hopes that were created by the Minsk accords," Lavrov told a press conference after talks with his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics in Moscow on Monday.