Russia-Ukraine crisis: Time to revive the Minsk Agreements

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Russia and Ukraine are continuously in the news because of their security crisis. As we know that Russia and Ukraine have close cultural linguistic and familial links. Recently, Ukraine claims that Russia has amassed around 90,000 troops at the border.
This conflict is not only between Russia and Ukraine but it is adversely affecting the other countries like US,Britain, India and so on. 
There are various causes of conflict viz. Ukraine is a buffer zone between Russia and the western countries. Russian interest in Black sea is also one of the most important causes of conflict, because Russia has many geopolitical advantages with it. Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine, it was the first time when a European country annexed territory from another country since world war-ll. Russia has declared Ukraine's North Atlantic Treaty Organisation(NATO) membership as a "red line" and worried about the consequences led by the US military alliances.
                      One week ago,White House press secretary Mrs. Jen Psaki said, "We are concerned that the Russian government is preparing for an invasion in Ukraine that may result in widespread human rights violations and war crimes should diplomacy fail to meet their objectives."
Us intelligence officials have determined that Russian troops are underway to further invade Ukraine, and according to the White House, Moscow has already prepositioned cooperative to conduct "a false flag operation" in eastern Ukraine.
     Regarding this conflict, if any kind of military action would be taken by the US or EU against Russia, it would directly or indirectly lead to a major crisis for the whole world.
 In my opinion, it is time to revive the Minsk agreement so that we will be able to deal with the crisis.
In September 2014, Ukraine and the Russian backed separatists agreed a 12-point ceasefire deal in the capital of Belarus which is known as Minsk-l.
In 2015, Minsk-ll was designed to end the fighting in the rebel regions and hand over the border to Ukraine's National troops. This peace agreement was signed under the mediation of France and Germany.
                 Therefore, it is need of the hour to revive the Minsk peace process to restore peace on the border as well as in the whole world.

- Aparna Tiwari

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