Moscow hopes that the European Union States will arrive in Minsk with the proposals impact on Kiev, will not consider the crisis in Ukraine war against the Federation, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov..

in Minsk on August 26 will be a meeting of the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, as well as authorized by the EU.

" I hope rather that the joint Western colleagues and the meeting in Minsk, and in the process of possible meetings in different formats, be it channel, whether the Geneva, will still be on them to come not only with the expectations that we magically for them all decide - it won't work and will come prepared to act on the Ukrainian side in terms of awareness of her responsibility for their country, and in terms of understanding, it is not the struggle for Ukraine against Russia, and the struggle for Ukraine as a state, in where everyone can live, " he said at a press conference on the first day of the week.

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