Minsk Agreements Helped Ukraine Beef Up Its Military, Merkel Tells Russian Pranksters

The Minsk Agreements were a series of deals brokered with the help of Germany, France, Russia and the OSCE in 2014 and 2015 They were meant to peacefully resolve the conflict in Donbass that broke out in the wake of the 2014 US-backed Euromaidan coup in Ukraine.