Russia is right to suspect that the West may be playing a double game, a Swiss journalist and ex-politician, Guy Mettan, told Sputnik Africa.
"If we look at it from the Russian side, we see that, up to now, the duplicity or suspicion of duplicity on the part of the West has always been justified, as the Western powers have neither respected nor enforced the Minsk agreements through Ukraine," he said.
On the contrary, they used these agreements to better arm Ukraine, as revealed by Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, the journalist recalled.
Russia must exercise caution because it cannot be sure of the goodwill of the Americans, he explained.
For this reason, "a total ceasefire was not possible under the current circumstances," which is why the Russian and American leaders agreed on a partial ceasefire that spares energy infrastructure, Mettan noted.