Moscow believes that the shares of Kiev are contrary to the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the situation in the Donbass, reported in the report of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, issued on the last working day of the week.

"Practical actions of Kiev as regarding constitutional reform and local elections in the Donbass do not meet the" spirit and letter " of a complex of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements of February 12, 2015. Most importantly, this applies to the persistent refusal of the Ukrainian authorities from direct dialogue on these issues with the authorized Donetsk and Lugansk, which makes impossible the implementation of the political provisions of the Minsk agreements ", - is informed in the report.

The Russian foreign Ministry stresses that this view of the Russian side on concrete examples explained to his colleagues in the process of the expert meeting "channel four" in Berlin on 20 August.

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