“Notice that [Ukrainian president] Zelenskyi is not connecting the escalation on Ukraine’s borders with the implementation of Minsk, because he knows that the implementation of Minsk could be more dangerous for Ukraine’s stability than what’s happening on the borders,” Shulga said.
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Far-Right expert Michael Colborne believes that if Kyiv’s government tried to implement Minsk, there would be backlash from large swathes of the Ukrainian population.
If Putin would have gotten a deal that would have gotten him some of his demands without waging a war, that would have likely been popular at home.
But it might have been impossible for Kyiv to agree to such a deal without far-right militia doing another coup. As Everyone is talking about Minsk but what does it mean for Ukraine? says it: