The top diplomats of Russia and the United States agreed at their meeting on Wednesday that they should help Ukraine to implement the EU-brokered reconciliation deal. Ria NOVOSTI writes about this.

“We have agreed that Ukrainians need assistance to implement the February 21 accord,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

He met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris before heading to a meeting with top diplomats of France, Germany and Poland, who mediated the signing of the reconciliation agreement between the government and the opposition and put their signatures under it.

The agreement announced early presidential and parliamentary elections, a national unity government and a return to an earlier constitution. 

“Kerry… agreed that honest agreements, that would help the people of Ukraine to stabilize situation, can hardly be reached in the atmosphere of threats and ultimatums,” Lavrov said.