Ukraine Today: Putin underestimated Ukrainians, Pyatt says in final speech

The resolution of the conflict in Donbas is entirely in the hands of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, the outgoing US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt said in his final interview for The Daynewspaper.

He added that the US are going to work hard with their partners in Germany and France to try to see the implementation of the Minsk agreements before the end of President Obama's administration, but "if President Putin was half as committed as President Poroshenko and Ukraine are to peace in Donbas, the Minsk agreements would have been implemented a long time ago":