"As it became known from the recent revelations of the direct participants in these events - Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande - the West was not initially going to settle anything," RIA Novosti quotes him.
Nebenzia recalled that similar theses were expressed by the ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
Against the backdrop of systemic deceit, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the incumbent Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, continued his course and plunged the country into disaster, according to the Russian diplomat.
On December 7, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the Minsk agreements an attempt to give Ukraine time to “become stronger.”
She noted that today's Ukraine militarily is "not what it was in 2014-2015."
Later, ex-President of France Francois Hollande said that the Minsk agreements allowed the Ukrainian army to become stronger and "stopped Russia's offensive for a while."