Here the article debating the interpretation of what she said. https://web.archive.org/web/20230103062022/https://www.zeit....
> Merkel sagte der ZEIT: "Das Minsker Abkommen 2014 war der Versuch, der Ukraine Zeit zu geben. Sie hat diese Zeit auch genutzt, um stärker zu werden, wie man heute sieht."
Russia may feel aggrieved that their goal of re-subsuming the independent former Soviet republics has been somewhat thwarted, but clearly that has been and still is their policy.
Russia is the aggressor here. It is quite simple.
All the eastern European countries wanted to join NATO because they are afraid of Russian invasion. Turns out they were right.
After that the oligarchs started arming extremists (Azov et. al.) to put the brakes on the inevitable retaliation by Russia.
Contrary to what your genocide supporting sources say, Ukrainians are actually able to protest with that being engineered by CIA.
A full-fledged war with Russia will begin in a couple of years - Alexei Arestovich (Mar 18, 2019)