DISINFO: Kyiv refuses to implement the Minsk agreements and the Normandy agreements
SUMMARY
Kyiv stubbornly refuses to implement the Minsk agreements and the Normandy agreements.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that Ukraine is not willing to implement the Minsk and Normandy agreements.
In reality, Article One of all Minsk agreements calls for an immediate ceasefire because it is impossible to proceed with the peace process amid hostilities. Ukraine has announced a truce several times since the war broke out in Donbas in 2014, and the illegal DNR and LNR republics have been continually violating it. On top of that, separatists often use the civilian population as a human shield by shelling Ukrainian positions from residential areas to accuse Ukrainian troops of possible civilian victims when they strike back.
Moscow illegally provides weapons to the separatists. This is a well-known fact, although Russia denies it and accuses the US of selling weapons to Kyiv. Ukraine, on the other hand, does not conceal the military aid it receives because it is legal and transparent.
By making statements alleging that Ukraine has done nothing to implement the Minsk agreements, Moscow and the separatists it backs are delaying a peace settlement.
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