Russia continues to resist but it will only suffer losses (video)
On January 23, 2014, the first death was reported in Kiev, Ukraine. A year later, it is impossible to count the number of victims in Ukraine. The OSCE reports that at least 24 people were killed in Donbas in one day. Clashes continue in the country despite the cease-fire signed in Minsk on Septembers 5, 2014. Anush Sedrakyan, Deputy Chairperson of the Free Democrats Party, says ‘while Russia understands that more sanctions will be imposed on the country, it continues to strengthen its military positions in Donetsk: this is revenge.’ “Russia is attempting to attain salvation,” she said. Zaruhi Hovhannisyan, a member of the Armenian Committee for Solidarity with Maidan, says ‘when a person sees that the entire economic system of the country is paralyzed and there is no way out, he shoots.’ “Putin has also appeared in a hopeless situation. He threw himself into this situation, after disallowing the former Soviet states to make their own choice,” she said. Russia was expected to respond to Ukraine’s decision to take a European path in such a way. Although the military situation continues in Ukraine to this day, people gathered at Maidan achieved their goal: they eventually formed a nation that has an independent state. Russia continues to resist, but it will gain nothing but losses. Another attempt to resolve the conflict was made on January 22. The Foreign Ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France met in Minsk to find a solution. It became clear that Moscow decided to impalement the Minsk agreement in the hope that the European Union and US will annul or at least mitigate part of the sanctions imposed on Russia.
