So why Minsk agreements failed? There seems to have been a major decrease in ceasefire violations per OSCE during COVID years (to 1/3rd). So it seems a bit weir

So why Minsk agreements failed? There seems to have been a major decrease in ceasefire violations per OSCE during COVID years (to 1/3rd). So it seems a bit weird for Russia to escalate now, if calming the situation down was the Russian overall goal. And certainly if Russian so care about people's lives, orders of magnitude more are dying now than in the last few years.