In an interview with "Mir" TV channel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Kiev was sabotaging the Minsk agreements, organizing provocations on the contact line in the Donbass, not fulfilling the political part of the package of measures.

Lavrov said: "We are deeply concerned about what is happening with the implementation of Minsk agreements, primarily as a result of sabotage by the Kiev authorities. Examples of this set. This concerns. The complete sabotage of the political process and the organization on a regular basis of armed provocations on the contact line in order to have an excuse not to carry out the political part of the package of measures that was approved in Minsk ".

The Russian Foreign Minister once again stressed that there is no alternative to Minsk agreements.

Lavrov noted: "President (RF Vladimir) Putin stressed, like the Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, among other things that, despite all this, we do not see an alternative to the Minsk accords, we can not develop anything more constructive now, therefore our common The line is to continue to work within the Norman format - at the level of leaders, at the ministerial level, at the level of experts - and, of course, in the contact group where the Kiev authorities and the representatives of Donetsk and L Ugansk, together with representatives of the Russian Federation and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ".