Ukraine violated the part of the Minsk agreement concerning the breakaway regions prior to them breaking away.
“Ukraine violated the part of the Minsk agreement concerning the breakaway regions prior to them breaking away.”
Neat trick. Considering:
Pro-Russian separatists declared the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) on April 7, 2014, and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) a few weeks later, both as being independent from Ukraine. These were by “referendum.”
So, they “broke away” in April and May, 2014.
Minsk I was signed on September 5, 2014 (or about 4 months after the referendums; and Minsk II was signed on February 12, 2015, nine months after the referendums.