MOSCOW, 15 Jul. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky destroyed his country because he followed the Western lead and did not follow Vladimir Putin's advice to implement the Minsk agreements, American human rights activist Ajamu Baraka said.
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«The US withdrawal from Afghanistan should have become a lesson for Zelensky. The United States took advantage of his inexperience and persuaded his government to abandon the Minsk agreements and go to war. And now, after tens of thousands of deaths, Ukraine is being abandoned. What cynicism,” he wrote on Twitter.
The West has repeatedly stated that the Minsk agreements, designed to resolve the conflict in Ukraine peacefully, were considered by Washington, Brussels and Kiev as a way to buy time to prepare the Armed Forces of Ukraine for war with Russia. This was stated by the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Former French President Francois Hollande supported the German politician's statement.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin later admitted that these statements were unexpected for him, since he counted on the sincere desire of European countries to strengthen peace and avoid a military clash in Ukraine.< br>