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Since you are the only person brave enough to ask about the Minsk Accords, here is what the West did through Ukraine.
While neither side stuck to the cease fire agreements completely. Both de-escalted military actions. I personally was in Donetsk after these agreements were made the first and second time. From time to time fighting or shooting broke out, but not full scale action.
Luhansk and Donetsk were to be "special" self ruling, with their own elections, but still part of Ukraine. Ukraine would still manage the national border with Russia. The local elections agreed to never took place and instead only National elections took place. This violated the self management or self rule portions of the Minsk Accords. Ukraine has admitted this.
Social and economic reintegration of Luhansk and Donetsk did not take place as Ukraine blocked all of those items in order to bring a collapse of the economy in those regions. Ukraine isolated the entire Donbas region and litterally financially starved the people in those regions. This violated the Minsk agreements and further deteriorated the lifes of people in those regions. Ukraine has admitted this.
Merkel came out and said, the west never intended to honor the Minsk agreements and they were only meant to buy time for Ukraine. Ukraine has admitted this as well and Z has said publicly that Minsk 2 would have been "impossible" to implement. This from the man who ran for office on the premis he would make peace with Russia. Obviously, both sides violated these agreements. The difference being that Ukraine never intended to honor them, and by that admission, can we really blame Russia for saying fvck it, now these two republics that Ukraine agreed would have self rule in Minsk 2, can become part of Russia. Really thats what happened, without all the politcal back and forth. Not that Russia is justified in this war, they are not. Ukraine and the west brought this on Ukraine. The west lied to make a deal that would not be honored, and the west is responsible for pushing a Dictator to a point they knew he would go in my opinion.
Ukraine now, needs to make a deal. Even if the new aid bill gets done in the US, they have less than ten months to make something happen. This new military leader is a Soviet trained general. A huge mistake on Z's part. It is time to negotiate, because once Russia starts shooting US made planes out of the sky, and they will, Z will have no leg to stand on trying to argue there is a path to victory.