“In addition, he promised to end the civil war (which has been going on since 2014 after an illegal coup d'état) and provide a certain amount of self-government to Donetsk and Luhansk.
And of course, once he was elected, I guess someone put a gun to his head and he changed his mind and did none of it.
It can be assumed that many of those 73% of Ukrainians who voted for him wanted the implementation of these agreements so that they would not have to fight, ”Waters said.
In his opinion, the conflict could be stopped "at least tomorrow."
“It’s enough for the Americans to sit down at the negotiating table and say: “Okay, let's stick to the Minsk agreements,” he added.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, expressed confidence that the Minsk agreements provided Kyiv with the opportunity to preserve the Ukrainian state, and it would not get a second such chance.