Former German Prime Minister Merkel Recently, he said in an interview with German media that the Minsk Agreement reached in 2014 is actually "to buy time for Ukraine to strengthen its military strength."
Merkel also emphasized that everyone should be clear that the conflict at that time was only temporarily frozen, but the problem has not been fundamentally resolved.
Merkel also put forward a hypothesis on the spot. If Russia launched military operations against Ukraine around 2014, would NATO still support Ukraine as it is now?
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The answer is obvious. NATO was not prepared at that time, and Ukraine did not have the strength it is now. The reason why the "Minsk Agreement" was reached was because Ukraine and NATO were unable to stop Russia's actions.
So, what exactly does the "Minsk Agreement" reached?
The main contents of the "Minsk Agreement" include:
1. A comprehensive ceasefire was implemented in Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast ;
2. Ukraine, under the premise of having the sovereignty of Donbass , allows Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast in the Donbass region to gain a high degree of autonomy;
3. Both parties to the conflict evacuate all heavy weapons and withdraw the same Distance to create a military buffer zone of at least 50 kilometers;
4. The artillery above 100 mm caliber on both sides of the conflict retreated 70 kilometers, while the 9A52-4 cyclone-S, BM-27 Hurricane, BM-30 tornado multi-barrel rocket launcher system and dot-U battle tactical ballistic missile system need to retreat 140 kilometers;
5. Provide legal pardons and pardons to activists occurring in individual areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Prefecture.
6. All foreign troops and mercenaries evacuated Ukrainian territory under the supervision of OSCE .
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Judging from the content of the "Minsk Agreement", Russia seems to have taken a big advantage. But judging from Merkel's statement, Russia is NATO's way of doing so. So much so that Russia's top leader Putin 's statement to Merkel seemed particularly disappointed. Putin responded at a press conference that Merkel's remarks were unexpected because he always believed that the German leaders were sincere to Russia, although they were on the side of Ukraine. But he has always believed that the leadership of the German government is sincerely working for the implementation of the Minsk Agreement with the goal of promoting peace. It turns out that no one is implementing the Minsk Agreement, and Russia is not wrong in carrying out special military operations, and it should have even started earlier.
Indeed, if the "Russia-Ukraine conflict" is a matter of time, then 2014 is obviously much better than the timing of 2022. However, in 2014, Russia did not send troops to help pro-Russia send Yanukovych stabilize the whole country of Ukraine. But only a small number of elite troops were dispatched to control Crimea , and volunteer soldiers into the two states of Donbas, Donetsk and Lugansk .
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The result proved that it was a constant interruption at the beginning, but now it was a mess.
The "Minsk Agreement" has indeed won Ukraine eight years to hide its strength and maintain a low profile. Although from the books, Ukrainian army has not added 1 new fighter jet or 1 new tank, nor has other new ships and submarine . However, in fact, the people and the army of Ukraine have undergone qualitative changes.
If in 2014, half of the people in Ukraine were pro-Russian; then by 2022, at most, only one-quarter, or only a few states in eastern Ukraine will be pro-Russian.In addition, in the past eight years, NATO countries have provided military reform and training to Ukraine's army; implemented informatization operations in Ukraine, established a core system of non-commissioned officers and squads with non-commissioned officers as the core; built a large-scale deep defense fortress of more than 100 kilometers in the Donbass region; carried out nationalist propaganda in Ukraine to stimulate national sentiment in Ukraine; Ukraine has also re-energized the three-layer mobilization system and rotational combat system, and wartime mobilization has brought hundreds of thousands of troops to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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This series of measures cooperate with the weapons support of the United States and Western countries, so it is naturally difficult for the Russian army to easily defeat the Ukrainian army like in 2014. On the contrary, we have seen several major retreats in the Russian army, including the evacuation of Kiev, the evacuation of Kharkov, the evacuation of Kharkov, the evacuation of Khlsong, and the evacuation of Khlsong, and the evacuation of many Russian troops.
Not to mention Bachmut, who is now known as the "meat grinder" of in the first battle, the Russian army continued to attack Bachmut for nearly six months, but was blocked by the Ukrainian army and could not move forward.
If the stalemate continues like this, when will the new "Minsk Agreement" come?
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