The French president’s visit to Washington is part of European efforts to prevent an agreement that would be detrimental to Kyiv
French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested that a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia could be reached “in the coming weeks”, following discussions with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.
The Minsk II deal, aimed at ending Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, instead laid the groundwork for Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. The United States must learn from the Minsk deal or risk a direct Russia-NATO conflict that puts American lives at risk.
The anniversary is a good moment to recall the post-Cold War history of Russia’s broken promises. They began with the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 amid the illusion of the “end of history." Ukraine yielded its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from the U.
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Exactly 10 years ago, on February 12, 2015, the second Minsk Agreement was signed. After that, for many years the politicians of the EU, Russia, the USA, Ukraine, Donbass repeated the thesis as a mantra: "There is no alternative to the Minsk agreements.
As the Trump administration works toward a halt in the fighting, many experts fear that Ukraine will be forced to accept a ceasefire deal that will only give Russian forces a badly needed breather.
The United States … is committed to ending the carnage and restoring stability to Europe,” said Ambassador Kelley.
Ukrainian bond prices have dropped sharply this week as increasingly hostile rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump toward the country and its leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy forces many investors to reconsider what may now lie ahead.
Minsk III is needed to settle the situation in Ukraine, Russian TV host, head of the Global Energy Association (Russia) Sergey Brilev said
Ukrainians continue to resist against the onslaught of the Russian army, but the war has inevitably entered a grinding phase in which every territorial gain comes at an enormous cost, testing Ukraine’s endurance and the West’s willingness to maintain support.