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| Russia says Kiev 'breaking Geneva accord' on Ukraine | |
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| Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the Kiev authorities of breaking last week's Geneva accord on resolving the Ukraine crisis. | |
| He said the Kiev government - not recognised by Moscow - had not moved to disarm illegal groups, especially the ultra-nationalist Right Sector. | |
| "Extremists are calling the tune," he alleged, condemning a fatal shooting near Sloviansk, in eastern Ukraine. | |
| He also criticised the continuing Maidan street protests in Kiev. | |
| Early on Sunday at least three people were killed in a shooting at a checkpoint manned by pro-Russian separatists near Sloviansk. | |
| The circumstances remain unclear. The local separatists said the attack was carried out by Right Sector militants. Kiev called it a "provocation" staged by Russian special forces. | |
| The 17 April Geneva accord was agreed at talks between Russia, Ukraine, the EU and US. It demanded an immediate end to violence in eastern Ukraine and called on illegal armed groups to surrender their weapons and leave official buildings. | |
| Pro-Russian militants are still holding official buildings in at least nine towns and cities in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. | |
| Mr Lavrov said the most important demand of the Geneva deal was "to prevent any violence" and it was not being implemented. | |
| "Steps are being taken - above all by those who seized power in Kiev - which crudely violate the accords reached in Geneva," Mr Lavrov told a news conference in Moscow. |