Ukraine it is useful to recall the painful lessons of five years ago
Exactly 5 years ago was signed the Minsk II agreement. Since then this document has cursed almost All participants in the negotiations, that does not prevent them periodically to accuse opponents in default.
Exactly 5 years ago was signed the Minsk II agreement. Since then this document has cursed almost All participants in the negotiations, that does not prevent them periodically to accuse opponents in default.
Passed the whole five years, And with all the disadvantages of "Minsk-2" the alternative is not found. It would be more accurate to say that the only alternative to agreement - restoration of large-scale hostilities, as It was in 2014 And early 2015. Most amazing of all, what about the possibility of this alternative in the past few months say the Ukrainian side, But the new leader came To power on slogans of complete ceasefire And declares as if a sincere desire to put an end to the war. Kiev officials of the highest level persistently insists on the need to revise the Minsk agreement, change order of items in the agreements, to strike out certain of the fundamental provisions.
against this background, significantly intensified And Ukrainian patriots, telling about how easy they clean up the Donbass, just tell them. But, it would seem, to calculate the most likely final of such actions, it is enough to recall the story of the birth of the " Minsk-2 ".
It should be recalled that the agreement of February 2015 was preceded by the "Minsk-1" - the document signed in September 2014. He was extremely declarative, to a greater extent reduced the intensity of the fighting, But did not lead To the primary purpose for which it was conceived - direct talks between Kiev And the breakaway republics of Donbass.
The first contract was the result of ilovaisky boiler, which choked the offensive military power of Ukraine. Now Poroshenko himself does not hide: "It was a miracle, a miracle. Nobody believed we have here,