The US promised to lift for the Russian Federation "economic price" for Donbass
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Payette said that If Russia did not comply with " the obligations it has assumed by signing the Minsk consensus ", the West will lift the " economic price ".
in connection with the situation in Ukraine, EU countries, USA and Canada in the spring of the past year have introduced against Russia 1st batch of sentences, then it was expanded. Moscow has stated many times that is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine. Russia officially joins the mediators in the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.
"If Russia will not be able to perform the obligations it has assumed by signing the Minsk consensus, we will raise the economic cost for the Kremlin," said Pyatt reporters on Thursday. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict in the Donbas were more than 6 thousand people. The next meeting of the contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of the "silence" and report that conduct only return fire.
According to the envoy of the White house, the U.S. agitate the Russian Federation not to violate the Minsk consensus. The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said, for its part, Washington is not willing to see the success of the Minsk agreements on the settlement in Ukraine and overcome the decline in relations between Russia and the EU.
the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation also said that North America and the EU openly supported the anti-constitutional coup in Kiev and the action of coming to Power of the nationalist forces for military depression and economic "strangulation" of the South-East of the country. In these conditions Russia made efforts to promote the rapid ceasefire, towards a long-term truce, the result was the Minsk consensus. In the capital of Russia noted that many times campaigned external actors to influence Kiev for the execution of the Minsk agreements to resolve the situation in the East of the country.