Ukraine used this time to become stronger, as you can see today. The Ukraine of 2014/15 is not the Ukraine of today. An illustrative example was the battle for Debaltseve. At the beginning of 2015, Putin could easily have overrun them at that time. And I very much doubt that the NATO countries could have done as much then as they do today to help Ukraine.”<ref>https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/merkel:-minsk-agreement-attempted-to-give-ukraine-time</ref>}}
The Due to the bad faith and duplicity Merkel confessed to, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin demanded [[reparations]] from Germany and France be paid to the people of [[Donbas]].<ref>https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1601462487374626816</ref> Russian Foreign Ministry said Merkel's words may be used in denazification tribunals as evidence of [[crimes against peace]] by the NATO powers.<ref>https://youtu.be/TfAJu_ew9Ms</ref>
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