Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ƙoƙarin da aka yi na warware yakin da ke gudana a yankin Donbas na Ukraine bai ga wani sakamako ba a farkon Fabrairun 2015. Duk da yake Yarjejeniyar Minsk ta 5 ga Satumba 2014 ta rage yaƙe-yaƙe a yankin rikici na tsawon watanni da yawa, ƙananan rikice-rikice sun ci gaba. A farkon watan Janairun 2015, dakarun 'yan tawaye na Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Donetsk (DPR) da Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Luhansk (LPR) sun fara wani sabon hari a kan yankunan da ke karkashin ikon Ukraine, wanda ya haifar da rushewar yarjejeniyar Minsk. Bayan gwagwarmaya mai tsanani, sojojin DPR sun kama filin jirgin saman Donetsk mai mahimmanci a ranar 21 ga Janairu, bangare na karshe na birnin Donetsk wanda ke karkashin ikon Ukraine. Bayan wannan nasarar, sojojin 'yan tawaye sun ci gaba da kai farmaki
a kan babbar hanyar jirgin kasa da titin titin Debaltseve a ƙarshen Janairu. Wannan sabon tashin hankali ya haifar da damuwa mai yawa a cikin al'ummar kasa da kasa. Shugaban Faransa François Hollande da shugabar gwamnatin Jamus Angela Merkel sun gabatar da sabon shirin zaman lafiya a ranar 7 ga Fabrairu. Tsarin Faransa da Jamus, wanda aka tsara bayan tattaunawa da shugaban Ukraine Petro Poroshenko da shugaban Rasha Vladimir Putin, an dauke shi a matsayin farfado da Yarjejeniyar Minsk. Shugaba Hollande ya ce shirin shine "wata dama ta karshe" don warware rikicin. An gabatar da shirin ne don mayar da martani ga shawarwarin Amurka na aikawa da makamai ga gwamnatin Ukraine, wani abu da Shugabar Merkel ta ce zai haifar da mummunar rikici.