But he was soon surrounded and controlled by ultra-nationalist Russian-hating Bandera-loving Azovites who uttlerly rejected Minsk.
If Minsk had been followed, Crimea remains Russian (As it was from Catherine the Great to Kruschev, but still within the USSR), Donetsk and Luhansk remain in Ukraine, but with the Russian language allowed etc.
Minsk was not good enough, now Ukraine will most likely lose everything inside the yellow circle. Odessa and Kharkiv will be up for grabs.
Ukraine should have honored Minsk.
