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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.