...in March/April 2022.

Just as EU Minsk Accord negotiators and signatories were quietly pressured or ordered by the US War Machine not to even contemplate implementing that fake, play-for-time peace pact which was agreed to in good faith by a persistently peace-seeking Putin.

Even Reuters - unlike the MSM - fairly - even empathetically - reported Putin's Dec 2021 NATO expansion concerns and peace conditions, priorities:

"Dec 21 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had no room to retreat in a standoff with the United States over Ukraine and would be forced into a tough response unless the West dropped its "aggressive line".
"Putin addressed his remarks to military officials as Russia pressed for an urgent U.S. and NATO reply to proposals it made last week for a binding set of security guarantees from the West....."

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-russia-has-nowhere-retreat-over-ukraine-2021-12-21/