[REGNUM] Russian President Vladimir Putin , during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron , announced the unwillingness of Western countries to push Kiev to implement the Minsk agreements. This was reported on February 12 on the Kremlin website.
"The unwillingness of the leading Western countries to push the Kiev authorities to implement the Minsk agreements was also emphasized, which was once again manifested in the unsuccessful round of consultations of political advisers to the leaders of the Normandy format states held on February 10 in Berlin," the message says.
As REGNUM reported , the Ukrainian topic, as well as the issue of security guarantees that Moscow is seeking from NATO, were discussed on February 7 during a lengthy meeting between Putin and Macron in the Kremlin.
Ushakov: Russia essentially did not receive a response from the United States on security guarantees
[REGNUM] Russia essentially received no response from the United States on strategic security guarantees, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said on February 12.
"In fact, neither on the expansion of NATO, nor on the non-deployment of strike forces on Ukrainian territory, nor on the return to the configuration of the alliance’s forces to the state of 1997, when Russia’s founding act of NATO was signed, did we receive an answer in essence," he said.
As REGNUM reported earlier, Ushakov said earlier that United States President Joe Biden, during a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, mentioned possible sanctions against Moscow against the backdrop of the situation around Ukraine.