Russia Calls Zelensky Played West, Admits Crisis Ends If Minsk Agreement Adheres – TribunNews.com
TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said: that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used the West to against Russia.
This was revealed by Lavrov in an exclusive interview with the channel television India Today, Tuesday (19/4/2022).
I think the West played Zelensky against Russia. Dan (West) do everything to strengthen it in the desire to ignore the Minsk Agreement, Lavrov said.
If only he (Zelensky) cooperated in implementing Minsk agreement, the crisis will end a long time, he said, quoted from the Russian media, TASS . Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov (SPUTNIK/ MIKHAIL VOSKRESENSKIY)
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WHAT IS THE MINSK AGREEMENT?
The Minsk Agreements are a series of international treaties that aims to end the war in the Donbas region.
Donbas is the designation for the region in eastern Ukraine which includes Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
This agreement contains the steps for declaring a ceasefire weapons, draw weapons, declare amnesty, restore relations economy, and carry out constitutional reforms in Ukraine through dialogue with the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic and Luhansk (DPR, LPR).
This is done to decentralize power and provide special status support to certain districts of the Donetsk region and Luhansk.
However, the actual negotiation process stalled due to Kyiv .s refusal to to comply with the political terms of the Minsk agreement. Map of Donetsk and Luhansk (Donbass) (via BBC.com)
