Urgent measures to relieve the humanitarian situation in Ukraine are badly needed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday after talks with his Finnish counterpart Erkki Tuomioja.

Urgent measures to relieve the humanitarian situation in Ukraine are badly needed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday after talks with his Finnish counterpart Erkki Tuomioja, voice of Russia reported.

"Given all the nuances, we have a common position that the Geneva communiqué and the OSCE roadmap are the common denominator. They open a way to the settlement. A priority step is stopping violence and launching a nationwide dialogue and a constitutional reform," he said.

"I agree that Ukrainians should make their choice freely, independently, without interference from outside," Sergei Lavrov said.

"The history of that country in the past ten years is abundant in examples of flagrant interference into its domestic affairs.

The Russian foreign minister added that Russia and Finland should value their relations: "After all, our relations should not depend on someone’s whims. They concern mutually beneficial partnership and implementation of joint projects. We should value these relations instead of sacrificing them to politicized approaches."

Union relations with Ukraine should be built with due account of integration processes both in the east and in the west of the European continent, Sergei Lavrov said.

"Union with Ukraine should be built with due account of integration processes both in the east and the west of the European continent and on the basis of mutually acceptable approaches," he said, TASS reports.

"It would be a path for creating a common humanitarian and economic space in the Euro-Atlantic region."