Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Fabrairun 2015, Zakharchenko, mai wakiltar DPR, ya amince da yarjejeniyar zaman lafiya ta Minsk II, yana mai cewa "babbar nasara ce ga Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Lugansk da Donetsk". Bayan sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar Minsk, Zakharchenko ya bayyana cewa idan hukumomin Ukraine suka keta sharuɗɗan yarjejeniyar, suka kasa janyewa daga kan iyaka, ko suka kasa sakin fursunonin yakin Donetsk, zai ɗauki Kharkiv kuma ya hallaka bataliya na Ukraine a Debaltseve. Bugu da kari, Zakharchenko ya bayyana cewa ba shi da niyyar bin yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta a yankin Debaltseve. Daga baya an ji masa rauni a kafa a ranar 17 ga Fabrairun 2015 yayin kammala matakan yakin Debaltseve.
Ka yi haƙuri. A watan Janairun 2016, ya bayyana yakin da aka yi a watan Yulin 2014 don kauyen Kozhevnia a matsayin "wani muhimmin al'amari a gare ni", yana mai cewa "na farko ne na farko. Abin takaici, a lokacin yakin da muka yi kusan mun hallaka wannan kauye. Ta hanyar kona gidaje, mun ceci rayukanmu da rayukan mutanenmu".