REUTERS
Five hundred square kilometers of the Ukrainian territory have been seized by anti-government militants and Russian troops since the signing of the Minsk agreements in September 2014, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said on Ukrainian television’s Channel 5 on Tuesday.
"Russia is destabilizing the situation in Ukraine to shift as much as possible the line of demarcation in its own interests, and then to fix these positions at the talks in Berlin," he said.
A new round of talks on the Ukraine crisis are to be held on Wednesday evening in Berlin, Germany, between the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday.