MOSCOW, Nov. 19 – Berlin blames the disruption of an agreement on settling the crisis in Ukraine signed in Kiev in February 2014 and verified by top-ranking German, French and Polish diplomats on former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's departure from Kiev and then from Ukraine.

"That agreement was good. The problem was that one of the signatories to that agreement, namely President Yanukovych, left the country, and it was no longer possible to implement the provisions of this agreement. The fact that he left the country meant huge changes in the alignment of forces in Ukraine," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at a press conference following negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday.