Excellent article, I do recall this effort and Zelensky made no headway because the Minsk agreement needed a constitutional change. Such a change has happened quite frequently ever since the coup d'état of February 2014.

Instead, Kyiv and the government made life for Russian speaking Ukrainians unbearable. See the many human rights violations documented by the UN and others.

Participants in "No Surrender" march in Kyiv voice demands to Zelensky | Oct. 14, 2019 !

Activists who are taking part in a "No Surrender" march in Kyiv on Defenders Day demand that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky either pursue victory in the Donbas war or resign, according to an UNIAN correspondent.

Organizers of the march, participants in the Russian-Ukrainian war in Donbas, addressed the crowd at the "viche", or a popular meeting, that took place at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square downtown Kyiv.

After that, a rally was held outside the President's Office.

Speaking at the rally, a Ukrainian historian and TV host Vitaliy Haidukevych expressed the opinion that the so-called "Steinmeier formula" for the Donbas settlement is designed to "surrender Ukraine."

He cited a historical analogy between today's developments with the approval of the Steinmeier formula with the events of 1938, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler signed the Munich Agreement.

"This Steinmeier formula is essentially a Munich conspiracy-2. This time, when they want to strike a deal with Putin, they are ready to kill Ukraine," said Haidukevych.

At the same time, a veteran of the Azov regiment, Dmytro Kukharchuk, raised concerns that, if today the Ukrainian Armed Forces withdraw from Donbas, then "the enemy will be in Kyiv tomorrow."

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