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Merkel’s Confession About Minsk Agreements to Buy Time for Ukraine to Prepare for a Military Standoff with Russia

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  • Merkel’s Confession About Minsk Agreements to Buy Time for Ukraine to Prepare for a Military Standoff with Russia
    by https://tass.com/
    Merkel’s confession about Minsk Agreements a solid bid for a tribunal — diplomat
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    According to Maria Zakharova, the ex-Chancellor’s confession “says the horrible: fraud as modus operandi of the West – machinations, manipulations, all kinds of distortion of truth, law and justice imaginable”
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    MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. The confession made by German ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s in her interview for Die Zeit that the Minsk Agreements were signed in order to buy time for Ukraine to prepare for a military standoff with Russia could be used for an investigation in a tribunal, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
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    “A lot is being said today about the legal assessment of the situation around Ukraine, about some tribunals and all kinds of that thing,” she noted. “This, however, is a solid bid for a tribunal. The things that Merkel said in her interview – this is a testimony of a person, who stated it directly that everything that was done in 2014 and 2015 had only one goal: to divert the global community’s attention from the real problems, to buy some time, to pump the Kiev regime with weapons and to lead the situation to a large-scale conflict.”
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    According to Zakharova, the ex-Chancellor’s confession “says the horrible: fraud as modus operandi of the West – machinations, manipulations, all kinds of distortion of truth, law and justice imaginable.”
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    “They [Western representatives – TASS] knew it back then, in 2015, already, when they held hours-long talks, they knew that they would never implement it, that they would pump the Kiev regime with weapons,” the diplomat underscored. “They had no mercy for anyone: women, children, civilians of Donbass and Ukraine in general. They needed conflict, and they were ready for it back then already, back in 2015.”
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    Merkel’s confession
    Speaking in her interview for Die Zeit, published on December 7, Merkel said the following:
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    “The 2014 Minsk Agreement was an attempt to buy time for Ukraine. Ukraine used this time to become stronger, as you can see today. Ukraine in 2014-2015 and Ukraine today are not the same.” According to the ex-Chancellor, “it was clear for everyone” that the conflict was suspended and the problem was not resolved, “but it was exactly what gave Ukraine the priceless time.”
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    She doubted that, back then, NATO member states could provide aid to Kiev in the same volumes that they do now.

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