Germany unsatisfied with implementation of Minsk agreements — government spokesman

Germany is not satisfied with the course of implementation of the Minsk agreements and is concerned over the fact that there is no full-scale ceasefire in Ukraine, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Monday.

"If we look at how the situation has developed on the whole since the moment when [the Russian, German, French and Ukrainian] leaders met in Minsk, it becomes clear that implementation of the agreed measures is unsatisfactory," Seibert said.

"A comprehensive ceasefire is of crucial importance. The German government is worried that we don’t see that yet," he said.

Minsk ceasefire agreement comprises 13 points in a Package of Measures. The package in particular included an agreement on cessation of fire from February 15, withdrawal of heavy armaments, as well as measures on long-term political settlement of the situation in Ukraine, including enforcement of the special self-rule status for certain districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. 

As we have previously informed shelling of Donetsk and its outskirts had not stopped even after February 15.