Tag Archives | Minsk agreements

In these days of great tension, peace is a priority: The Ninth Newsletter (2022)

Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 3, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) |

It is impossible not to be moved by the outrageousness of warfare, the ugliness of aerial bombardment, the gruesome fears of civilians who are trapped between choices that are not their own.
What are the Minsk agreements and what are their role in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 22, 2022 by Abdul Rahman (more by Peoples Dispatch) | (Posted Feb 25, 2022)

Under pressure from ultra-nationalists and Russophobes, successive governments in Ukraine have failed to address the grievances of the Russian speaking majority in the Donbass region. Ukraine has also not implemented the provisions of the Minsk agreement signed in 2015 to end the conflict in the region.