Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov attacked the Minsk accords, describing them as a game of "thimble upside down". Peskov said in a press interview today (Sunday) that the West deceived Russia with this agreement. He added that it provided an encouraging impetus to the Kiev regime in many ways, and unleashed them to organize a massacre against the Russians in their country, and this is what accelerated the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, as he put it. And he considered that the agreement signed in 2015 was nothing but a "thimble" game.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, recently considered that Minsk had been dead for years.
And these agreements are now in danger of disappearing after the recent step of Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognize two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, while many politicians consider that this Russian step was a severe blow to the agreements that are considered the basis for any political solution to the Ukrainian crisis.
The Minsk agreements signed in 2015 stipulated the settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine, through a cease-fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the contact lines, the release of prisoners of war, constitutional reform in Ukraine, the granting of autonomy to certain regions of Donbass, and the return of control of the state borders to Ukrainian government.
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