Top diplomats seek Ukraine solution in Paris talks
Mr Lavrov said it was agreed that all sides needed to respect an EU-brokered peace deal signed last month, although Western powers have not commented.
The deal involves political reform, but pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych fled before it could be implemented.
The EU earlier offered 11bn euros ($15bn; £9bn) of aid to Ukraine.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the package of loans and grants over the next couple of years was "designed to assist a committed, inclusive and reforms-oriented government" in Kiev.
Ukraine's finance ministry has predicted it needs $35bn to rescue the economy.
The EU also froze the assets of 18 Ukrainians, accused of involvement in a deadly crackdown on protesters.
In other developments:
Hundreds of pro-Russian demonstrators have stormed the regional government building in Donetsk for the second time in recent days
Gunmen in Crimea threatened the UN secretary-general's envoy, Robert Serry, but he is reported safe
Russian forces have seized two Ukrainian missile-defence sites in Crimea, according to unconfirmed reports
'Bad example'
Mr Lavrov met US Secretary of State John Kerry and counterparts from the UK, Germany and France on the sidelines of a long-planned conference on Lebanon in Paris.
He then made his comments about the 21 February deal before another meeting of foreign ministers began.
The 21 February deal granted major concessions to the opposition, but Mr Yanukovych then fled.
There are reports the Ukrainian foreign minister may be at the latest meeting.
Nato and Russia held parallel talks in Brussels.
Afterwards, Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the organisation was reviewing all cooperation with Russia and was stepping up its engagement with the government in Kiev.
The US and Russia had appeared far from compromise in the lead-up to the Paris talks.
The US wants independent observers in the flashpoint region of Crimea and direct talks between Kiev and Moscow.
Russia was expected to call for greater representation for Ukraine's Russian-speaking areas in the Kiev government.
The Paris gathering is being seen above all as a chance to test the waters for a dialogue about Ukraine, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall.
But UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Russians had already failed to appear at one meeting with the Ukrainians in Paris so he was "not optimistic" of making progress later.
Troops believed to be Russian servicemen are in control of Ukrainian military bases in Crimea
Mourners at Kiev's Independence Square remember the 88 protesters who died in clashes with police
Pro-Russian protesters stormed the Donetsk government building hours after they were forced out
"If we cannot make progress on that course there will be costs and consequences," he said, in reference to a threat of sanctions by the US and EU.
In the US, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel announced plans to expand US military co-operation with Poland and Baltic states.
He said the US would step up joint aviation training with Poland, and increase its participation in Nato's mission to police the air space of Baltic countries.
The announcement was a direct response to concerns raised last week by Poland, he said.
Meanwhile, a recording of a phone conversation between EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet has been leaked on the internet.
In the recording, Mr Paet told Baroness Ashton that there was an "increasing understanding" in Ukraine that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych's government was not responsible for the deaths of police and protesters during clashes last month in Kiev.
He said some Ukrainians believed elements from within the new regime in Kiev had employed snipers.
He said Ukrainian doctor Olga Bogomolets had told him that victims from both sides were shot by snipers using the same weapons.
However, Dr Bogomolets told the UK's Telegraph newspaper that she had never had access to victims from the government side and was unable to comment on how they had been killed.
Mr Paet confirmed that the conversation with Baroness Ashton had taken place on 26 February.
In a news conference on Wednesday, he called for an inquiry into the deaths in Kiev, but warned against using his comments to discredit the new government.
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov accused protesters of conducting an "armed coup-d'etat"
"I call for journalists to treat this recording very carefully. I was talking about the theories there were about what happened in Ukraine," he said.
Mr Yanukovych fled Ukraine shortly after the bloodshed and is now in Russia.
Moscow has since flooded the Crimea region with military personnel, claiming that Mr Yanukovych had asked for their help.
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) says it has sent 35 unarmed military monitors to Ukraine in response to a request from Kiev.
Source:BBC
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