When Friends Can’t Agree

... Russian journalists at the end of the meeting [1] . The Minsk agreements – new implications of unfulfilled points Both sides regarded the Minsk agreement as a breathing space and used it as an argument in their information campaigns. The “Normandy format” meeting of the foreign ministers took place in the context of escalating armed conflict in the Donbass region. During the constant fighting of the previous days the DPR and LPR militias had managed to seize the initiative and by using a significant amount of armoured vehicles and artillery to capture a large part of Donetsk airport and a small ...