When Friends Can’t Agree

... sides regarded the Minsk agreement as a breathing space and used it as an argument in their information campaigns. The “Normandy format” meeting of the foreign ministers took place in the context of escalating armed conflict in the Donbass ... ... August 2014. In addition, the first dialogue between Kiev on the one hand and the DPR and LPR on the other took place in the Minsk format, albeit not at the very highest level. However, that’s probably about as far as the importance of the Minsk ...