German Chancellor Angela Merkel had hoped to see the Minsk armistice process rehabilitated at the Normandy Group’s January 21 meeting in Berlin (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, January 22, 23). Prefacing that meeting of the German, French, Russian and Ukrainian ministers of foreign affairs, Ms. Merkel declared: “The Minsk agreement remains, of course, the basis for … Continue reading Lavrov unilaterally reinterprets ceasefire agreement with Ukraine