4. Permanent OSCE monitoring of Ukraine-Russia border
5. Release of all hostages
6. Amnesty for separatists, Ukraine to pass law
7. Continue inclusive national dialogue
8. Improve humanitarian condition of Donbass
9. Local elections consistent with Ukraine law
10. All sides withdraw illegal and mercenary military forces
11.Adoption of Donbass recovery and reconstruction program
12. Protect all participants in consultations
In effect, the Minsk agreement is a somewhat messy 12-step program designed to help those people who, along with their friends and relatives, remain addicted to uncontrolled outbursts of internecine violence. Call it "Ukraine-anon." Like any 12-step program, the participants typically need the support of those close to them if they are to succeed in improving their lives. When someone like Angela Merkel, who is outside the formal process, colludes with someone supposedly within the process to undermine the process, the process will likely be sabotaged. That appears to be what happened, at least for the short run.
Given the sketchy quality of the Minsk agreement, using it as a standard for international behavior is irrational, or deliberately dishonest and hostile. The agreement calls, for example, for early local elections, which the Republics held, after the elections in the rest of the Ukraine in the fall of 2014. The Republics' elections were widely denounced in the West as a violation of the Minsk agreement, even though Ukraine had failed to pass the law under which they were supposed to be held.
Until the West stops assaulting Russia, calls for peace are a bad joke
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