“Following the Paris Summit of the Normandy four, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the protests [that took place in Ukraine leading up to the summit] strengthened the position of the Russian, and not Ukrainian, delegation. Of course, this is mistaken.
“Mistaken if only because the positions held by the Ukrainian delegation in Paris and the positions defended by the participants at the protests both at the Maidan and the Office of the President, were essentially the same. It was Putin who tried to persuade the Ukrainian president to capitulate. And it was the protesters who warned Zelenskyy about capitulation.