I keep hearing about this supposed provision in the Minsk Protocol for Ukraine to give up the Donetsk Airport, but have never come across any credible source to support this contention. Could you point to such a source?
“I keep hearing about this supposed provision in the Minsk Protocol for Ukraine to give up the Donetsk Airport”
Kiev alternately says the Kiev Protocol isn’t legitimate, then it says it is no party to it because Kuchma isn’t an official representative of the Kiev Government, and then it claims violations of it.
Zakharchenko addresses this in the video I posted. You can tell he’s disgusted with it.
As far as the airport I concerned, the Minsk Protocol called for UK-Rebel forces to disengage, with Kiev withdrawing heavy equipment to line 15 kilometers away.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_Protocol
After the heavy fighting stopped, the Right Sector refused to honor the agreement, and moved it’s own and Nat Guard (Which are not Army-controlled) forces, including armor, in to hold it.
Lots of videos on Youtube of them claiming credit for it, and celebrating the “Retaking” of the airport, just after the cease-fire.