VIENNA, December 9 — RIA Novosti. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statement that the Minsk agreements were signed to give the Kiev regime time to «strengthen» clarifies the current position of the West in the Ukrainian conflict, said Russia’s deputy permanent representative Maxim Buyakevich.
Merkel, who served from 2005 to 2021, spoke about the Minsk agreements in an interview with Die ZEIT on Wednesday. Berlin and the collective West did not intend to fulfill the Minsk agreements, but they used the time they gained to pump Kyiv weapons,” said an official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria ZakharovaCommenting on former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
