Given the fact that the Minsk agreement obviously will not be fulfilled (which is today actually recognized Merkel), this is actually the first step to the recognition of the republics.
Ukraine’s army command has pulled more forces and weapons to the line of contact in Donbass instead of pulling them out as the Contact Group demands, Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the operations command of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said on Sunday.
In the absence of real diplomatic progress in the areas of settlement, no scenarios other than the military remain.They can be reduced to low-intensity or high-intensity combat operations (depending on the degree of freezing of the conflict and the combat readiness of the troops), but the main thing about this is that this situation will continue to last for years (see the history of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, where 20 years after the beginning of the war, Armenia and Azerbaijan easily find ways to unleash a new war over the territory of the Republic, part of which is converted into a permanent front line), surviving and Putin, and Poroshenko, and Trump.
The Fourth Revolutionary War 