The Minsk agreement included actions to protect the rights of people in Donetsk and Luhansk and for Russian-speakers thoughout the country as outlined in a note from the agreement:
The State Department admits that Ukraine has is far from fully implementing the steps required:
"I think it’s fair to say, looking back, that many of those steps Ukraine has either implemented or begun to implement; there are some that haven’t yet been tackled,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told VOA during his last visit to Kyiv “I think, unfortunately, it’s equally fair to say that Russia has done virtually nothing in terms of the steps required in the Minsk agreement.”
Did the US expect Russia to withdraw aid the separatists with ongoing violations of the cease fire and without the required reforms?
The US and Ukraine demanded that agreement be renegotiated.
Today, most Ukrainian experts and former officials believe the Minsk agreements must be renegotiated.
”The circumstances changed significantly, so the Minsk agreements are no longer the political decisions that can be used. They need to be totally renegotiated and maybe with a different group of negotiators,” said Valeriy Chaly, who was a member of the original Ukrainian delegation to Minsk.
Yanuklovich was a Putin Proxy who was thrown out when he went against the wishes of the majority and aligned with Russia instead of Europe.
Still waiting on the thing where NATO overthrew him.
I think I know what is going to be brought up next ( the Nuland call) and if one reads that transcript they were talking about how to keep the Party of Regions from retaking power or even worse… having Neo Nazis in charge.
Yes. They invaded in 2014 when their boy got kicked out.
One must make an argument that a sovereign nation has no right to associate with which ever nation they wish within the World Order but must always acquiesce to the demands of their larger neighbor to believe that Ukraine had no right to determine it’s own relationship with the EU or NATO.
NATO did overthrown a dully elected president just because he was pro-Russian. The people voted for him and according to international observers it was free and fair election.
