>withdrawal
Well, that was just the announcement of the end of exercises for some of the troops in Belorussia. And this was in part because Macron is in the middle of his re-election campaign so his "peace mission" needed a triumph. Russia can't quite withdraw from its own territory, and as long as China has its back in the far east, should continue to put pressure on Kiev. Although I'm not really sure if the goal should still be for them to finally implement Minsk, given that they did the nothing but undermine the agreement for fucking 8 years. Tbh, although I know war is tragic and can quickly get out of hand, and for russia a war in the ukraine would have very costly economic consequences in the short term, plus the disastrous effects that (more) kin bloodshed would have for many decades to come, still a part of me is OK with Russia basically implementing Minsk by force, or even just incorporate Novorossia, puppetize or split the rest and be done with it.

Actually, I'm right now seeing that Macron just requested another emergency Normandy Four meeting to take place soon. Previous one didn't produce anything, though, and in fact just a day ago in the MSC comedian-in-chief Zelensky said that at this point Minsk II is almost dead, so whatever