The Minsk Agreements have no alternative as a basis for resolving the conflict in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Wednesday following the State Duma’s request addressed to President …
China has told the United States it wants to see all sides involved in Ukraine remain calm and avoid increasing tension, when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke about Ukraine on a telephone call …
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, during which they discussed the situation in Karabakh, the Kremlin press service reports. "During the exchange of views on …
Three members of the Normandy Quartet (Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France) are unwilling to see that the Minsk agreements are the key document for the settlement in Ukraine, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday. …
The former Soviet republics have generally similar hopes
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has said he thinks it is necessary to change the Minsk Agreements. "Since the time of Minsk, four years have passed, everything is changing in our life. And we understand that …
Kiev considers Donbass a field of confrontation with Russia
A consensus on sanctions against Russia and a rejection of protectionist economic policies were the last remaining themes that G7 leaders were thrashing out at a summit in Italy on Saturday, ahead of giving a final seal of approval to a joint …
Russian President Vladimir Putin has had a telephone conversation with Normandy Four leaders on settling the armed civil conflict in eastern Ukraine, the presidential press service said. Germany's Federal …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Western states must protect the principle of territorial integrity and NATO needs to strengthen its eastern flank following situation in Ukraine. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on February 18, Merkel said that ...
The United States is "deeply concerned" with the spike in violence in Ukraine's Donbass, which has caused dozens of Ukrainian military and civilian casualties, the State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a …
Ukrainian-backed forces undermined a peace deal over eastern Ukraine by launching an attack there on pro-Russian rebels yesterday, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on a conference call with reporters. He noted …
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said they want to extend sanctions against Russia due to a lack of progress in implementing a ceasefire deal. Merkel, speaking …
Russia expects the Normandy format summit in Berlin to give new impetus for ceasefire accords in Donbass to be implemented in practice, Speaker of Russia's upper house Valentina Matvienko said. "We hope that …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed in a phone call on Thursday the situation in Ukraine and Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry …
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans do not include meetings with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, TASS …
The US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is visiting Paris today, during the talks with the Foreign Minister of France, Jean-Marc Eyraud, stressed that the United States will work with Russia and …
Europeans believe it is more important to have a strong economic relationship with Moscow than take tough foreign policy positions
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has held a meeting with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit. The meeting lasted nearly an hour. The Deputy Prime Minister …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the implementation of the Minsk accords within the Normandy format with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter …
