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The Minsk Agreements and Merkel’s political amnesia

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Article by: Hans Petter Middtun
The Minsk Agreements gave Ukraine “precious time” to become stronger, German chancellor Merkel recently claimed, leading to Putin’s absurd claim that their goal was to “pump Ukraine with weapons.” What Merkel left out, however, is that Ukraine was denied weapons supplies over the eight years of the West’s attempts to find a “peaceful resolution” to Russia’s aggression while Russia ramped up military production and prepared for war.

President Putin has allegedly been disappointed by the statement of Angela Merkel, where she claimed that the Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015 enabled Ukraine to prepare for the war with Russia.

The former German Chancellor recently said that the Minsk Agreements, signed in 2014, had given Ukraine “precious time” to become stronger, and the results of this could now be seen. She emphasized that Ukraine in 2014-2015 was very different from Ukraine today.

The response from the Kremlin-controlled “media” (not to be confused with a free, independent press) was predictable. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova argued that the “confession” by Merkel “says the horrible: fraud as modus operandi of the West – machinations, manipulations, all kinds of distortion of truth, law, and justice imaginable.”

“They [Western representatives – TASS] knew it back then, in 2015, already, when they held hours-long talks, they knew that they would never implement it, that they would pump the Kyiv regime with weapons,” the diplomat underscored. “They had no mercy for anyone: women, children, civilians of Donbas and Ukraine in general. They needed conflict, and they were ready for it back then already, back in 2015.”

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