Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin joined DW in Berlin to discuss the situation in the Ukraine, where violence has recently escalated. Klimkin is in town for a meeting of OSCE members called by Germany.
DW: How much is Ukraine willing to compromise to make the ceasefire agreement work?
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin: Compromise is a point of terminology, for me it is a point of substance. If the Russians prolong this or deliver on the Minsk Agreements. The Minsk Agreements are, in essence, a kind of peace plan. If you like to go towards peace, what do you do normally? You stop shooting. You let the OSCE (Organization for Security an Cooperation in Europe) control the territory, you let the OSCE control the pulling out of forces, you let the OSCE control the part of border where we have been getting the whole inflow of weapons, of Russian regular troops, and you start talking about free and fair elections. How do you make free and fair elections happen in Donbass?
