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Authoritarian leaders are turning to food export bans amid war in Ukraine (www.piie.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So... that article doesn't support your claim at all. For one, it is from several months after the election. It also doesn't say anything specifically about him supporting the Minsk agreements. It just said that he supported holding elections in the Donbass region after combatants have left the area.

The Minsk agreements are dead. If you want more proof of that, Putin himself made the claim right before rolling tanks into Ukraine in an invasion that had clearly been planned well in advance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, that literally supports my claim in the first paragraph:

As the war in eastern Ukraine drags into its sixth year, all the attempts to end it have so far failed. But in a significant development on October 1, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, announced his provisional agreement to hold local elections in the currently occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk, collectively known as Donbas.

That's basically what the Minsk agreement is in case you weren't aware. Minsk agreements are dead now, but Russia and Donbas tried to get them implemented for 8 years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

So again, it was not part of his platform since this came months after his reelection. Also, there was a lot more to both Minsk agreements. Zelenskyy support was hinged on Russia and its proxies getting out of the occupied territories as the primary objective. Clearly Russian proxies have no interest in disarming and Russia has every intention of continuing to occupy Crimea and the Donbass region, if not completely annexing Donbass as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The Minsk agreement is pretty short, so please point out what you mean by "a lot more". I will ignore the rest of your comment because it is just baseless, ideological rambling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

He very clearly ran on reunification and ending the conflict on Donbas which ultimately meant implementing Minsk agreements. Anybody who knows anything about Ukraine knows this. You have absolutely no clue regarding the subject you're discussing.