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| Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by ITKovasabiMod(op): 11:23pm On Feb 09, 2023 |
The Ukrainian president claimed he personally refused to implement the deal for peace in Donbass Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky personally refused to implement the 2015 Minsk agreements – a roadmap for peace in the east of the country, which was co-sponsored by Germany and France. He made the admission during an interview with Der Spiegel published on Thursday as he continues his tour across Europe. Zelensky said he viewed the agreements as a “concession” on Ukraine’s part, and never once actually sought to implement them. Instead, they were merely used to exchange prisoners with the two breakaway Donbass republics. The president claimed he openly told that to then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Russian President Vladimir Putin back in 2019, with all of them acting “surprised.” “But as for Minsk as a whole, I told Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel: ‘We cannot implement it like this,’” Zelensky stated. “I told [Putin] the same as the other two. They were surprised and said: ‘If we had known beforehand that you would change the meaning of our meeting, then there would have been problems even before the summit.’" The Minsk agreements, originally brokered in 2014 and further expanded in 2015, envisioned a roadmap for reconciliation between Ukraine and the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The two regions rebelled against the country’s new authorities in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup in Kiev, which ousted democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovich. Ukraine’s failure to implement the agreement, which would have seen the breakaway territories reintegrated with the country but retain a special status, ultimately led to the ongoing conflict. Since the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, multiple politicians have taken credit for the failure of the Minsk agreements, admitting they were merely a ruse to give Ukraine time to build up its military. Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko was the first to admit last year that Kiev never intended to abide by them and used the deal to “create powerful armed forces.” Merkel and another original signatory of the Minsk agreements, former French president Francois Hollande, have also since confirmed that this was actually the true goal of the deal. Moscow considers these admissions to be evidence that the negotiations were conducted in bad faith and that the Ukrainian government and its backers had always intended for the Minsk agreements to flop and for the Donbass crisis to be resolved by force. Russia claims that its military campaign in Ukraine, launched last February, preempted an offensive planned by Kiev with NATO’s help. Ukraine, Germany, and France “lied to the people of Donbass, as they had a terrible fate planned for them, which Russia prevented,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said back in January. “Germany, France and Ukraine were playing a swindle game with the Minsk agreements. Now is payback time,” he stated at the time. SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JREMEqXSpGA |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by ITKovasabiMod(op): 11:25pm On Feb 09, 2023 |
OvazealousMod: |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by ITKovasabiMod(op): 11:26pm On Feb 09, 2023 |
Adjovi |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by ITKovasabiMod(op): 11:30pm On Feb 09, 2023 |
FreddieGray: |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by panafrican(m): 2:04am On Feb 10, 2023 |
At the expense of Ukrainians' lives. |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by orisa37: 5:00am On Feb 10, 2023 |
AS LONG AS SELENSKY LIVES, NO INCH OF UKRAINE SHALL BE UNDER RUSSIA. RUSSIA IS JUST A BULLY FOR NOTHING. |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by Adjovi: 1:13pm On Feb 10, 2023 |
ITKovasabiMod:Yes? |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by Adjovi: 1:16pm On Feb 10, 2023 |
ITKovasabiMod:No mind the guy. Now he will lose the donbass region and if NATO supplies jets then Russia will be much more brutal and may just destroy all of Ukraine. Zelensky and Ukrainians are the losers here . |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by Tiopii: 1:41pm On Feb 10, 2023 |
But what is Russia's business with Donbas, they should allow Ukraine settle their internal affairs. |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by ITKovasabiMod(op): 3:00pm On Feb 10, 2023 |
Adjovi:Thanks, you already acknowledged the topic I was drawing your attention to. |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by ITKovasabiMod(op): 3:54pm On Feb 10, 2023 |
Tiopii:For those who have genuine questions and have no intent of being mischievous, the Minsk agreement was brokered by Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine... Canada and the US are appendages of British colonialism. Canada is thousands of miles away from Britain but the head of state of Canada is the British monarch. Nigeria got her theoretical independence from Britain. The indigenous people of Canada never did...and they have no clean drinking water(although the occupiers/invaders continue to exploit their resources). The US has a president as it's head of state because the illegal migrants/colonizers from Europe that occupied what is today known as the US rebelled against the British crown. In other words, what we now know today as the US became a 'sovereign' country and has a president as it's head of state as a result of the civil war within the British empire. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War American Revolutionary War Date April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783[10] (8 years, 4 months and 15 days) Ratification effective: May 12, 1784 Location Eastern North America, North Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Result U.S. and Allied victory Treaty of Paris British recognition of U.S. independence End of the First British Empire[11] Territorial changes Great Britain cedes control of all territories east of the Mississippi River and south of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River to the United States What's your opinion on the legality of these issues? Do you have an opinion on the US illegal occupation of Syria? What about the Israeli illegal occupation of Palestine. Is that what Palestinians and Syrians want? I'm yet to see any man made law or rule that'll truncate the democratic will and right to self determination of the citizens of the Donbass republics. OvazealousMod: Adjovi: |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by ITKovasabiMod(op): 4:49pm On Feb 10, 2023 |
PlanktonX: ITKovasabiMod: Inhuman69: ITKovasabiMod: Inhuman69:Tbh, it's common knowledge that when you say West or Westerners, you're referring to Western Europe/Western Europeans..depending on the context, it may include the US, Australia Canada. They're then known as the collective West or just the West. For clarification, the westerners I was referring to on this thread and the other thread is Europeans from Western Europe. |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by tamdun: 12:04pm On Feb 11, 2023 |
orisa37:U are dreaming |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by pol23: 6:09pm On Feb 11, 2023 |
orisa37:While you might sympathize with the Ukrainian people, you should also Face the truth, the whole Crimea is under Russian 100%, also another new 3 eastern Ukrainian region is also under Russia’s control. Nothing can take those region away from Russia, not Biden nor NATO. We hope there will be a broker of peace between this 2 countries. To people that call Russia the aggressor, I hope you can read this. |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by orisa37: 8:46am On Feb 12, 2023 |
Russia is the aggressor. Russia wants to DIVIDE THE WORLD LONGITUDINALLY. NO WAY. US, UK , NATO AND EU WILL NEVER ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by Arrowhead231: 11:44am On Feb 12, 2023 |
orisa37:It's the duty of the US the UK, NATO, and EU to stop the Russians, what are the waiting for? |
| Re: Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements by orisa37: 12:56pm On Feb 12, 2023 |
They're Angels of GOD. And Angels care to TO TREAD where FOOLS rush. US UK EU AND NATO ARE ANGELS. |
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