Dear Editor:
After the latest ceasefire agreement concluded at a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group, Russian forces violated it on the very day that it took effect – July 27.
Indeed, notwithstanding another good-faith attempt by Ukrainian authorities to stop the killing of soldiers and civilians in eastern Ukraine, the reprieve was awfully short-lived.
This should not have come as a surprise to anyone who followed how quickly Russian forces violated their previous ceasefire undertakings made in Minsk I, Minsk II and the 2020 Normandy Four summit in Paris.