Eastern Ukraine’s Rebel Unrest - a podcast by TRT World

While the world's attention was focused on a transfer of power in Zimbabwe, a political transition of a different kind was unfolding in eastern Ukraine. The leader of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Luhansk said a coup was under way to force him out. Days later, he stepped down citing health reasons. The thing is, Igor Plotnitsky was a signatory to the Minsk peace agreement. And the man who's taken over, isn't. So, where does this leave the only international deal aimed at ending Europe's worst conflict this century?

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