Two years after the Minsk agreement was signed, the agreement is still having little or no effect on the ground. Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Klympush-Tsintsadze blames Russia on Conflict Zone.
The Group of Seven believes the full implementation of the Minsk Agreements is the only path to lead to reach a solution to the Ukraine crisis, according to a communique signed following a G7 summit in Italy’s Taormina.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told President Petro Poroshenko that she wants to see Ukraine's peace process restarted. Poroshenko says he sees no alternative to agreements reached in Minsk in 2014 and 2015, Deutsche Welle reports.
Viktor Medvedchuk has an unusually powerful godfather to his daughter: Vladimir Putin, the Russian president. The Ukrainian is also under U.S. sanctions for "threatening the peace, security, stability, sovereignty or territorial integrity" of his country, according to the Financial Times (FT).