Mekel and Poroshenko agree, the Minsk agreement was to buy time
In recent statements from Angela Merkel, that the Minsk agreements were to buy time. Poroshenko said something similar already in June.
The most recent mention in this thread was:
Minsk peace deal was distraction used to buy time so Kiev could militarise - Ukraine's former president Poroshenko
In recent statements from Angela Merkel, that the Minsk agreements were to buy time. Poroshenko said something similar already in June.
The most recent mention in this thread was:
On SOTT there was on June 17, 2022:Vladimir Putin: To be honest, for it was completely unexpected to me. It's disappointing.
Frankly, I wasn't expecting it. to hear this from the former Federal Chancellor, because I have always assumed that the leadership of the Federal Republic [Germany] behaves sincerely with us. Yes, of course it is. on the side of Ukraine was, supported Ukraine, but it still seemed to me that the leadership of the Federal Republic has always sincerely sought a settlement on the principles that we agreed on and that were achieved, including within the framework of the Minsk Process.
What has just been said only says that we are all right. were done in terms of starting a special military operation. Why? Because, it turns out, all these Minsk no one was going to fulfill the agreements, leadership of Ukraine in the words of former President Poroshenko he also said it: he signed it, but he wasn't going to execute it.
Minsk peace deal was distraction used to buy time so Kiev could militarise - Ukraine's former president Poroshenko
While both Merkel and Poroshenko might say that the Minsk agreements were for buying time, just to claim they had deceived Russia, no really serious actions after 2015 were taken by any of the two to implement the agreement, so what they have said this year could in fact be the truth.He made the comments in interviews with several news outlets this week, including Germany's Deutsche Welle television and the Ukrainian branch of the US state-run Radio Free Europe. Poroshenko also defended his record as president between 2014 and 2019.
"We had achieved everything we wanted," he said of the peace deal. "Our goal was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war - to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces."
He cited Sun Tzu's stratagems as an inspiration for the deception. Winning a war does not necessarily require winning military engagements, Poroshenko said, calling the deal he made a win for Ukraine in that regard.
Poroshenko failed to be reelected in a landslide vote for President Volodymyr Zelensky, who promised voters that, unlike his predecessor, he would secure peace in Donbass.
In the interviews, Poroshenko spoke about his role in negotiating the Minsk agreements, a roadmap for reconciliation between his government and the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. The former president apparently confirmed that Kiev hadn't come to the talks in good faith, but simply wanted a reprieve after suffering a military defeat.