Can dusting off an old peace deal stop Russia from invading Ukraine? Here’s what to know.

From left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President François Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko talk in Minsk, Belarus, on Feb. 11, 2015. (Mykola Lazarenko/Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP)

KYIV, Ukraine — Amid the global effort to deter Russia from possibly invading Ukraine, France has dusted off a stalled peace agreement that could offer a way out.

The Minsk peace agreement, reached in 2015 between Russia and Ukraine, was supposed to end conflict in eastern Ukraine that broke out a year earlier when Russian-backed separatists took up arms. It did not stop the fighting or solve the crisis.

The last talks among the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany on the deal were in 2019.

So why revive it now?

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