UNITED NATIONS, February 11. /TASS/. Germany and France have become more like accomplices to the crimes committed by Kiev in Donbass rather than mediators in settling the conflict, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said Thursday at a UN Security Council meeting initiated by Russia to mark the sixth anniversary since the Minsk Agreements were signed.

He recalled that diplomats from Berlin and Paris avoided taking part in an informal UNSC meeting with representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in December 2020. "Those who only back one side in the domestic Ukrainian conflict and, in spite of the facts, play along with its sickly fantasies about ‘Russian aggression’, cannot call themselves mediators. You are more like accomplice in the crimes committed by Kiev against the Donbass people," the diplomat stressed.

Nebenzia addressed the meeting’s members with a question on whether the representatives of Western countries are ready to unambiguously demand that Ukraine start moving towards peace and honor its obligations under the Minsk Agreements. "There are fewer and fewer signs of that, unfortunately," he noted.