The Minsk agreements were indeed a ploy to buy Ukraine time and should be credited for Kiev’s ‘successful resilience’ now, former French president Francois Hollande has said, confirming former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s assessment of the truce. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com