The Kremlin has dispatched a huge force to Ukraine’s border
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he no longer felt that a key 2015 plan agreed with France, Germany and Kyiv would be able to resolve Ukraine’s separatist conflict.
“We understand that there are no prospects” for the implementation of the 2015 Minsk peace accords, agreed in the capital of Belarus to end fighting between Ukraine’s army and pro-Moscow rebels in the east of the country, Putin told his security council.
The Kremlin has dispatched a huge force to Ukraine’s border — US intelligence says it is more than 150,000-strong and poised to attack — and on Monday the military said it had killed five infiltrators in the Rostov region, near Russia’s border with rebel-held Ukraine.
Russia annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea in 2014 and Moscow-backed separatists hold an enclave in the eastern distracts of Lugansk and Donetsk.
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