Putin goes on to say
”Our proposal is not to freeze the conflict, like how the west wants it, but to end it. I repeat, this is not to freeze the conflict, but for its final completion.”
Putin goes on to say
”Our proposal is not to freeze the conflict, like how the west wants it, but to end it. I repeat, this is not to freeze the conflict, but for its final completion.”
The Minsk agreements were post 2014 though, after Russia had already deployed the 'polite people'.
Ukraine's sovereignty was in tatters with the colour revolution.