UNITED NATIONS, February 24. /TASS/. Russia’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations Organization Vasily Nebenzya called some Western leaders’ revelations about the Minsk accords ‘a confession of guilt.’
"About a year ago, we all heard revelations by Pyotr Poroshenko [the former Ukrainian president], Francois Hollande [the former French president], Angela Merkel [the former German chancellor] and even Boris Johnson [the former UK prime minister] that neither France nor Germany nor even Great Britain ever perceived these [Minsk] accords seriously or intended to push the Ukrainian authorities towards their fulfillment and they only used them to stretch out time and enable Kiev to prepare for a war with Russia," the envoy said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine.
"This was actually ‘a confession of guilt’ by the leaders of these states," he added.
However, this does not prevent representatives of these countries from "lecturing’ other members in the Council and talking about the importance of observing international law" and accusing other countries of failing to fulfil Security Council resolutions," Nebenzya emphasized.
"To be more exact, they call for observing the international order based on rules, the rules that they invented themselves for their benefit. For all these years since the Minsk accords were signed, the Kiev regime had been making military preparations and strengthening the combat potential of the Ukrainian armed forces and had stepped up military-technical cooperation with foreign states," the Russian envoy said.