  e/putin-says-loss-trust-west-will-m ake-future-ukraine-talks-harder-202 2-12-09/ > putin had been asked about remarks by former german chancellor angela merkel, one of the agreements' sponsors, who told the zeit magazine in an interview published on wednesday that the 2014 agreement had been "an attempt to give ukraine time" - which it had used to become more able to defend itself. it even says this on wikipedia, which is hardly pro-russian.
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