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The Minsk agreements of 2014-2015 gave Ukraine time to strengthen the Armed Forces and prepare for war against Russia, former French President Francois Hollande confirmed the claims previously made former German Chancellor Merkel.
The former French president made his claims in an interview with The Kiev Independent.
Journalists asked Hollande if he agreed with the statement of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the agreements allowed to “freeze” the conflict between Russia and Ukraine but not resolve it. Hollande confirmed that the signing of the Minsk agreements was aimed to “give Ukraine precious time.”
“Yes, Angela Merkel is right. The Minsk agreements stopped the Russians’ offensive for a while,” he replied. According to Hollande, it was important “to know how the West will take advantage of this respite.”
Since then, Ukraine has “strengthened its military position”, the country’s army has become better trained and equipped compared to 2014.
“It is the merit of the Minsk agreements that the Ukrainian army has received such an opportunity,” he believes.
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Francois Holland was in service from 2012 to 2017. The first Minsk agreements were signed in 2014, and the second package of agreements was signed in 2015 by the Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement of the situation in Donbass, consisting of representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE. France and Germany participated in the approval of Minsk-2.
The agreements were aimed to consolidate the main measures to resolve the military conflict in Donbass. They included the commitment of the parties to cease fire, to abandon the deployment of heavy weapons in the buffer zone area, to exchange all prisoners of war.
However, most of the agreements were violated and have never been realised.
During the years, the Western officials, including Merkel and Holland continued to assure the world that they brought peace to Donbass. Today, after “peace’ turned into “war” in the Western politics as the Western elites are assuring their people that inflaming war in Ukraine is the way to their security and peace in Ukraine, they feel free to reveal their lies in an attempt to gain more support to the Western policy among the population.
However, a lot of Europeans were deceived by lies of their leaders.
All the parties to the agreement despite Russia lied in their goals, and negotiations were conducted only to “pump up” Ukraine with weapons. In his turn, Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded that the decision to launch a military operation in Ukraine on February 24 was the right one. The Kremlin said that Russia has reason not to trust Western countries.
The dismantle of Ukraine is the only way.
Ukraine is a war crime of the Bolsheviks and Russia will repair this.
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Long live Great Russia Motherland!
No. Dismantle of Russia is much better way. China, Finland and Japan are ready to get stolen land back. Independent Chechenia, Tatarstan and Koenigsberg are also on the way! Not to mention small far East republics – they will thrive without thieving russians…
The United States needs to be broken apart, Alaska can go back to Russia, the entire west coast, south west can go back to Mexico, the Midwest it’s on region the same with the southern states with the exception of Florida can go to Cuba and the east coast Great Britain can have its original 13 colonies back.
So far, you’re not doing too well. Not to worry though, you’re only two more patriot missile batteries away from fulfilling all your dreams. lol
Like “FAT MIKE” Mike Pompeo said: “Patriot is the best system, but sometime does not work”.
Like his career.
Seek a shrink
Bolcheviques controlados e enviados por judeus!
Europe is much worse off than the US, in my opinion. But all of Western “civilization” appears to be going downhill.
How about russia invading independent country in 2014 in the first place? Why anyone should keep agreements with aggressor? BTW it was russia again in 2022 attacking Ukraine – so much for ‘keeping 2014 agreement’…
How about usa & eu invading independent country in 2014 in the first place?
There it is… as real as it gets.
NATO was too greedy and thought it saw its second opportunity after Yushchenko flopped to evict the Russian fleet from Crimea and the Black Sea by having its merry little neocon elves stage a coup and empower a bunch of nazi freakoids. NATO never learns. Stupid is as stupid does. It’ll probably finally end in nuclear war now and frankly, I no longer care. In fact, it’ll be a cathartic experience.
A 2014 illegal coup d’etat began a revolution of stupidity. Charles Darwin once wrote ‘the stupid never survive in the long run.’
Ukraine is finished. Whether the EU survives, well maybe yes, maybe no.
OSCE said otherwise. But you keep believing all that brain rot and be sure to have yours scanned, as it may be early signs of brain cancer.
French voters confirm, French elections for the last 100 years have been LIES.
Why admin is deleting my posts? And no, eu was not invading anyone in 2014. Do you also think in 1989 eu invaded Poland, Czechia and all other countries aspiring to join the West?
In those countries they just said if you want the EU money you need to join nato.
Just look at what those former eastern european polititians now earn in commisary
jobs in the EU it’s often 5 to 10 times more then before at home.
But in ukraine they pulled janocovic into eu negotiations but much later said well
you can only do business with the eu or the russians not both.
Since his economy could not compete the the eu and he would just be a buyer and
not a seller he descided to stay with russia. Who gave him a loan that the eu denied him
so he could modernise his economy.
adding couse to long for one post:
That was when the eu triggered the pro western oposition telling all ukrainians you could
all be rich in eu just the one guy janocovic is preventing you.
Then a young pro western peacefull group was mobilised and protested against janucovic.
But alongside them and was the pravi sector right wing group from galicia armed and ready
to kill which is what they did. They (and some georgian mercs among them) had the firefights with the police and they were the ones attacking the pro russian protesters that came from crimea.
That’s how the violence started. The rest is just like allways a circle of hatred and violence.
The EU has serious blood on its hands, along with the US and Canada.
Fuck-o, the Poles had to be subjugated by the Russians after 1939 because their dipshit military dictatorship was at least as kooky and identitarian as the current Ukretard psychosis. The Soviets pleaded with the Poles, whose leadership was so fucking stupid they sold themselves out to the British and French empires, and ended up with Case White rammed up their people’s asses in 1939. The Russians walked away in 1989. The Czechs got a raw deal from the French and English in 1938 and ended up in the Russian buffer zone after 1945, but again, the Russians simply walked away and turned the county over to the western speculators in 1989. In 2014 the US overthrew the democratically elected leader of the Ukraine and NATO troops absolutely bolstered the OUN 2.0 ethnic cleansing operation in Donbas. Canada openly admits to keeping special forces in the Ukraine ever since the coup. The Canadian embassy in Kiev was a hub for far-right kooks during the coup in 2014.
The only thing worthy of canada is Nazi Canada a-rising to your dismay.
I see, so when the nazi freaks were running amuck in Maidan, sniping civilians from rooftops and running into EU embassies to regroup and some even did like Canada, arming the freaks, that wasn’t the EU invading Ukraine’s sovereignty?
Merkel and Hollande have beaucoup blood on their hands. Once Kiev’s regime has been destroyed, I expect them to commit suicide.
And if they dont commit suicide, the people of Donbass will bring them to justice!
Just have them emigrate to Canada. According to laws just passed, anyone there diagnosed with depression is provided with state-funded assisted suicide at taxpayers’ expense.
Hopefully that UA-CA Congress nest of nazis will experience deep depression soon and take advantage of the offer.
To commit suicide,someone must have an honor.
Well, that lets Merkel and Hollande off the hook. That hook anyway. Some fellow countrymen may hang them on another hook one day.
The Natostan owned meat puppets of the EUSSR are liars? Gee who could have imagined that all these pigs are no more “agreement capable” than rats trapped in a sewer. Shocking.
Meanwhile in the real world the rump Ukrap problem is being solved street by street until there is no more “Ukraine”.
Onward ever faster to Odessa and the landlocked, toothless rump Ukrap agricultural backwater that will be tolerated when Mr Bear is finished cleaning up the puke in aisle 7.
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Post soviet break up, Russia tried for 2 decades to build good relationships with the west. After such a Minsk betrayal by the 2 leading EU country leaders, Hollande France and Merkel. Germany, no more cheap commodities for the EU from its next door neighbour logical supplier. Without Russia cheap energy, the EU economy and civilisation will decline. Modern civilisation is based on energy. Russia commodities will flow east and south to China, India and all of Asia for their prosperity.
A huge strategic mistake of the West Europe leadership to continually antagonise Russia, culminating in allowing NATO forces to blow up Nord Stream, then not publicising and condemning this pre meditated deliberate act of economic and environmental destruction.
@leviatan, I agree 100% , “a huge strategic mistake” , no matter if you like Russia or not
Especially a strategic mistake to not integrate russia into the western economic sphere unlike germany and japan. And even more the be such idiot’s to transfer all production to one huge country cause it is cheaper and not anticipate this may lead to a rise of new competition.
Now they have russia who they promissed good relations after the end of communism which they betrayed and china who still does not trust any western country after the opium wars.
So instead of ruling supreme a world where chine is not that important and russia is integrated in
the western system they have antagonised and empowered two countries.
Sure if you want war that’s what you do but do not pretend that you want to make the world a much more peacefull place when you were the first power in history who had the chance for peacefull dominance and threw it away.
Russia’s too big, too independent minded. Fragile American exceptionalist psyches couldn’t take it.
Russia has nothing else but propaganda, third world laughable military and nuclear weapons. It’s pretty weak
Never trust a 2nd class German politician (remember Adolf), much less a French one (remember napoleon)
The people of the Donbass will sue Hollande and Merkel for war crimes and genocide.
In a decade, Russia will be forcing reparations on their behalf.
EU is a den of vipers.
So we won. Not yet? Shit. So what are we waiting for?
They lie, they cheat, they steal. Sounds like the CIA/Mossad runs the entire west. Oops, I forgot, they do.
The New Year started with good news:
“December 31. Russian troops have liberated the populated locality of Dorozhnyanka in the Zaporozhye Region eliminating about 50 Ukrainian servicemen, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov told journalists on Saturday.
“On the southern Donetsk front, as a result of a successful offensive, Russian troops have liberated the community of Dorozhnyanka in the Zaporozhye Region,” he said.
The spokesman also specified that the Russian forces wiped out up to 50 Ukrainian troops, three infantry carriers, two armored combat vehicles and five pickup trucks.”
I thaught Mr.Presiden Putin is a smart guy but he failed .
MOSCOW, December 31/. Russia’s Aerospace Forces have attacked three temporary deployment centers of foreign mercenaries in the Donetsk People’s Republic using high-precision weapons, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov told journalists on Saturday.
“As a result of surgical strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces, three temporary deployment centers of foreign mercenaries were hit in the vicinity of the populated localities of Krasny Liman and Chervonaya Dibrova in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the military official said.
The west undermined itself while pointing the finger at Russia.
Then stuck its finger up its ass and called it Macrononi.
For the record. Merkel and Hollande may flatter themselves into thinking the Minsk Agreements were a “trick” on their parts. But if that were true, Poroshenko would have signed Minsk II immediately, rather than having Merkel browbeat him into it for 19 hours without sleep.
No, in fact, the Minsk Agreements were a trick on the part of Donbass, and a Checkmate by Zakharchenko. That’s why Poroshenko did not want to signe. The Minsk Agreements were not only relatively favorable to Donbass autonomy, they allowed the DPR/LPR to keep their weapons, they established Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky as world-recognized leaders, they gave Donbass full veto over Ukraine’s constitutional revisions.
This is fantasy but thanks for trying.
Zero diplomatic trust. Blow back world wide will be a bummer.
That much is agreed, to the point that now people interested in their own autonomy will never trust any international cartel of federal governments ever again.
And that’s why the EU deserves to fall.
France and Germany are now disgraced beyond redemption. Dead Nations Walking.