Kurt Volker was in the headlines at the beginning, middle and end of 2018 as the United States’ designated special representative for Ukraine negotiations. Speaking in Brussels on January 22, Ambassador Volker made it clear that the two Minsk accords (of September 2014 and February 2015) had not been implemented because Moscow had not shown “willingness to implement them.” The next day Mr. Volker met with President Petro Poroshenko to discuss Russia’s war on Ukraine, which at that point was responsible for more than 10,300 deaths.