Moscow would welcome Ankara’s efforts to encourage Kiev to implement its commitments under the Minsk agreements, Russian Ambassador to Turkey Alexey Yerokhov said in an interview with Turkey’s Turkiye newspaper.
"We believe that the key differences between Russia and Ukraine stem from the non-implementation of the Minsk agreements by Kiev. If our Turkish partners can exert influence on the Ukrainians and push them toward implementing their liabilities, it will be only welcomed. We pay credit to the determination of our Turkish partners to take efforts to deescalate the situation," he stressed.
When asked to comment on the differences between NATO and the EU on Ukraine, the Russian diplomat noted, "probably, such difference do exist, and not only on Ukraine, but also on the topic of international security in general." "It is difficult to coordinate approaches with 30 partners. But I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to dwell on this topic. You’d better ask NATO and the EU about that, although they will probably be more prone to speak about Russia’s ‘aggression,’ ‘threat,’ and so on," Yekokhov noted.
