“We didn’t just ... have been doing this for eight years, we were ... interested in implementing this set of measures,” he said after talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
He also added that the Minsk agreements were killed long before the recognition of the independence of the LNR and the DNR.
On February 21, the Russian president signed decrees on Russia's recognition of the independence of the LNR and the DNR.
More details in the material RT.