Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow: "Regardless of what is happening in Paris, Syria or Libya and elsewhere, we will demand from our Western partners, who have much more influence over the Ukrainian government than anyone else, that they should sort out these plans and prevent 'the party of war' in Kyiv from crashing all the fragile hopes that were created by the Minsk accords."
Based on the Ukrainian prime minister's recent gaffe to German media, in which he referred to "the Soviet invasion of Germany and Ukraine."
The Collected Treasures Of Viktor Yanukovych
More on the Yanukovych international arrest warrant, via Reuters:
Interpol has put ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich and two members of his former government on the international wanted list at the behest of Ukraine, according to a notice on its website on Monday.
The international police organisation said Yanukovich and his former finance minister, Yuri Kolobov, were wanted in Ukraine on charges of embezzlement and financial wrongdoing. Former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov was also listed though it was not clear what the Ukrainian charges against him were.
Ukrainian authorities said Interpol's publication of a so-called red notice against 64-year-old Yanukovich and his two allies empowered any police force to hand them over to Ukraine if they were detained. Yanukovich has been living in Russia since he was toppled by street protests in February 2014.
In Moscow, the Russian Interfax news agency quoted a source familiar with the situation as saying Russia was unlikely to grant any request to extradite Yanukovich to Ukraine.
"Today, several months after Ukraine sent a request to Interpol in March 2014 with the arguments and explanations prepared by the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Security Service of Ukraine, an Interpol special commission has come to a decision," Ukraine's interior minister Arsen Avakov wrote on his Facebook page.
From Interfax:
Denis Pushilin, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic's representative in the Minsk Contact Group said Kyiv's transportation blockade was an attempt to put pressure on the Minsk negotiations.
"Ukraine will do all it can to make civilians' lives intolerable in Donbas. This is an attempt to put pressure on the talks ahead of the Astana meeting," Donetsk News Agency quoted Pushilin as saying.
Yuzhny Bus Terminal in Donetsk said on Monday that transportation services from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic to Ukraine had been blocked.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry approved a plan to organize transport corridors on the border with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. Military operation spokesman Andriy Lysenko said checkpoints would be set up in these places, to be manned by Ukrainian border guards, customs personnel and policemen.