The escalation of hostilities in Donbas was a planned operation of the enemy and Russia's attempt to derail the implementation of the Minsk agreement, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has said.

"The recent instances of the situation escalation were a deliberate, well-planned operation, both in Shyrokyne and in Starohnativka. All these cases are the examples of how the Russian side, together with Donetsk and Luhansk are trying to derail the implementation of the Minsk agreements," he said at a joint briefing with Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei in Kyiv on Wednesday.