conversation with russian pranksters who introduced themselves as the us exploit in russia michael mcfull. i needed these minsk agreements to get at least four and a half years, to form the ukrainian armed forces to build the ukrainian economy and train the ukrainian military together with nato to create the best armed forces in eastern europe that were formed according to backgammon standards. yes, vladimir zelensky, who promised to resolve the conflict in donbass without bloodshed, recently said that the minsk agreements were a concession to russia, and the document itself was useful to kiev only for the exchange of prisoners of war, the strategies of russia and the west on the ukrainian issue were fundamentally different and if moscow tried with all its might stop the military conflict. the west was interested in escalating it to the highest degree, washington is behind this, of course, and in this sense, both poroshenko and merkel and aland, who is now saying that this was not what they had in mind, they were all in a subordinate position in relation to washington, this is the united