wouldn't that be their Minsk agreement we broke Kon?
~S~
No. Russia broke the agreement Sparky!
en.m.wikipedia.org
The agreement failed to stop fighting.<a href="
Minsk agreements - Wikipedia" At the start of January 2015, Russia sent another large batch of its regular military.Following the
Russian victory at
Donetsk International Airport in defiance of the Protocol, Russia repeated its pattern of August 2014, invaded with fresh forces and attacked Ukrainian forces at
Debaltseve, where Ukraine suffered a major defeat, and was forced to sign a Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements, or
Minsk II,<a href="
Minsk agreements - Wikipedia"which was signed on 12 February 2015.<a href="
Minsk agreements - WikipediaThis agreement consisted of a package of measures, including a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line, release of
prisoners of war, constitutional reform in Ukraine granting self-government to certain areas of Donbas and restoring control of the state border to the Ukrainian government. While fighting subsided following the agreement's signing, it never ended completely, and the agreement's provisions were never fully implemented. The former German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier suggested a mechanism of granting an autonomy to Eastern Donbas only after "the OSCE certified that the local elections had followed international standards", called the
Steinmeier formula.
Amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine in early 2022, Russia officially recognised the DPR and LPR on 21 February 2022. Following that decision, on 22 February 2022, Russian President
Vladimir Putin declared that the Minsk agreements "no longer existed", and that Ukraine, not Russia, was to blame for their coll... Russia then launched a full
invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.