The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany held a conference call last month to discuss the peace process in Eastern Ukraine. During their two-hour conversation, Presidents Putin, Poroshenko, Hollande and Chancellor Merkel agreed that all the terms of the Minsk-2 ceasefire agreement must be implemented by the end of 2015.
Notwithstanding the optimistic tone of the leaders’ declaration, a starkly different reality has emerged in Eastern Ukraine.
On the day the four spoke, a barrage of missiles was launched into a residential area of Donetsk, a city controlled by Russian proxies. Ukrainian officials quickly reported that the attack was a maskirovka …read more
Source: European Voice
