Stepashin: Merkel persuaded Putin to sign the Minsk agreements

Former Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin said that former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was one of the main politicians who convinced Vladimir Putin to sign the Minsk agreements.

He clarified that without them, representatives of Moscow would have already at that moment been able to resolve the issue of liberating Novorossia from the Nazis.

“Merkel persuaded Putin to sign the Minsk agreements. She said: “Let’s wait, come to an agreement, come to an agreement,” Stepashin said.

According to him, over the years of his presidency, Putin has become “harder in relation to those representatives of NATO who deceived Russia.”