The Ukrainian government and the separatist eastern rebels began the pullback from the disputed village of Petrivske. Fighters started pulling back on Saturday, and it’s not clear how long that will take.
Once this pullback is finished, all preconditions will be filled for a plan negotiated between Russia, France, and Germany for a peace summit inside the Ukraine meant to resolve years of unrest.
There have been several efforts to cobble together a deal wherein the Ukraine rebellion would end. This has tended to rest on the government both backing off punitive laws against ethnic Russian minorities, and allowing local elections with some degree of autonomy.
Though this has been proposed in the past, it’s failed as the government has been slow to repeal anti-Russian laws, and has resisted the idea of any free elections being held in eastern Ukraine without the rebels first surrendering and being arrested and prohibited from running.
Just look at that last paragraph from the article again, whereby the Ukrainian government seeks surrender, arrest and prohibition. What ever happened Minsk?
Exactly, Ukraine’s current leadership, helped to power by US covert action in all likelihood, doesn’t really want the issue resolved, because the issue is a great excuse to get weapons gifted from the US. If you want militants to put down their arms to embrace a political resolution, there needs to actually be a peaceful political solution to embrace. So the real problem is that the US govt doesn’t want peace in Ukraine.
Imagine the United States supporting the Baltic Nazi countries phony democracies No one is allowed to vote or hold office unless they can trace their ancestry back to before 1940 . This is real discrimination and it is being supported by NATO forces .