After the new Ukrainian president Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky realized that the conditions of the MA (Minsk agreements) are very unfavourable to Kiev and practically could not be implemented by Ukraine, he tried to persuade Vladimir Putin in Paris (during Normandy format talks in the late November 2019), that the external conditions had changed and it is time to make some compromise on MA. Russia calls the parties involved (Russia does not consider itself as the conflicting party) to fulfill the obligations stipulated by MA step by step in order to settle the conflict and acusses Kiev of constantly breaching the agreements. But as we mentioned in the previous analysis, the current texting of Minsk agreements is unfavourable to Ukraine and the signing of MA by Mr.