"Need to comply with the Minsk Arrangements" has become a truism in mutual reproaches of Moscow and Kyiv. But if they are impracticable, then what is the point of them?

Implementation of any plan is impossible without the society consolidation around it. Zelensky's team does not have such a consolidation plan, so it refrains from promulgating any holistic project because of the public opinion split threat.

Ukraine continues to remain weak and, perhaps, even weaker than in 2013-2014. This defines the format of Russia's actions in "the war through other means" that do not violate the Minsk Arrangements.

Further prospects for the situation in the Donbas are greatly defined by the military and/or economic and humanitarian losses already suffered by Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the EU in the hybrid war.

For five years already, the form of the Minsk Arrangements coverage by mass media has been hiding their true substance. And so it programs the gap between the expectations and the reality