Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on Maas’s statement. So, the politician pointed to the hostile attitude of Germany.
“It is not necessary to keep the doors open, simultaneously sending threatening signals to them and gushing out with aggression (a strange method of inviting people to work together), but to fulfill their obligations to influence Kiev in order to implement the Minsk agreements. But German diplomacy could not achieve this”, Zakharova wrote in her telegram channel.