German-Russian International Affairs Dialogue (GRID). Conference Reports

... II agreements remain the only viable solution to the crisis in Ukraine. If Minsk II fails, there will be no Minsk III The new European security system needs to be Russia-inclusive. A number of Russian participants expressed concerns about the effectiveness ... ... indicated that both sides had not managed to forecast neither the possibility of the crisis, nor each side's policy responses. The Europeans did not expect Russia to intervene into Ukrainian affairs, whereas the Russian side did not expect the EU, and Germany ...