The signing of the second Minsk Agreement in February 2015 was intended to de-escalate the bloody civil war in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region. Even so, we were determined to go, to see for ourselves how things had panned out in Europe’s forgotten war. "I'm calling to inform you that if you travel to Donetsk, we can't guarantee any consular protection for you." The main change, it seems, is the removal of the Lenin statue, which was pulled down in 2014 when the conflict in Donetsk began. Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, reportedly signed the second Minsk Agreement only to save the army.

Source: Egypt Independent September 08, 2016 09:11 UTC