The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
18 October 2017 19:29
Comment by the Information and Press Department on events in central Kiev
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Moscow is closely following the protests that have not abated near the Verkhovna Rada building in the centre of Kiev.
These events are evidence of the fatigue in Ukrainian society that has accumulated as a result of the government’s numerous unfulfilled promises to overcome the severe social and economic crisis, deal with corruption, and fundamentally improve people’s living standards.
Calls for the president to resign are being heard in the central squares of Kiev again, like four years ago. One cannot help but experience déjà vu.
We hope that the administration in Kiev will not try to use the current political turbulence for the next escalation of the situation in Donbass. This would have very serious consequences for the internal Ukrainian settlement process.