He did. He never respected them in the first place though.
. The first āMinsk Protocolā was signed on September 5, 2014. It mainly consists of a commitment to a ceasefire along the existing line of contact, which Russia never respected. By February 2015, fighting had intensified to a level that led to renewed calls for a ceasefire, and ultimately led to the second Minsk Agreement, signed on February 12, 2015. Even after this agreement, Russian-led forces kept fighting and took the town of Debaltseve six days later.
The issues between the Russian State and the Ukrainian people go back hundreds of years. And will probably go on for hundreds more. Neither side has clean hands, Russia has always been the more powerful side in the conflict.
And let me emphasize. That is not what he is doing. He is being blatantly pro Russia in criticizing Ukraine for fighting back. I mean how dare Ukraine defend themselves! The nerve!
The Ukrainian government ignored the agreements almost as soon as they signed them. The required constitutional reform was never enacted.
Constitutional reform in Ukraine, with a new constitution to come into effect by the end of 2015, the key element of which is decentralisation (taking into account peculiarities of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, agreed with representatives of these districts), and also approval of permanent legislation on the special status of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in accordance with the measures spelt out in the attached footnote,[note 1] by the end of 2015.