Ukraine is waiting from Russia to take steps to de-escalate the situation in Donbas, otherwise, it will ask the international community to apply the next wave of sanctions, Acting Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Deschytsia has said.

"If Russia at the highest political level doesn't facilitate the de-escalation of the situation in the east [of Ukraine], then there is nothing left for us to do but to call on the whole of the international community to apply new pressure – new sanctions against Russia. Because, unfortunately, Russia understands just words of force and reacts only when one speaks with it as an equal, or by using force," Deschytsia said at the press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.

He said that the Ukrainian side still expects Russia to fulfill the obligations it undertook at the Geneva talks, as well as the promises voiced by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his last visit to France.

"We hope Russia will promote implementation of the peace plan for the settlement of the situation in the eastern regions [of Ukraine]," the minister said.

According to the minister, Russia should stop supporting terrorism to allow the successful settlement of the situation in the east of Ukraine.

"We must stop the tanks, which now are coming, armored KAMAZ vehicles, armed militants in the eastern regions of Ukraine. If these [things] stop, then, I think there all chances and possibilities that the plan offered by the president could be implemented. If Russia issues a demand in response to a demand – that would be a difficult path to a compromise," Deschytsia said.