It was never signed. And Putin has always hated Gorbachev for not getting it in writing. That is why Putin boycotted Gorby's funeral.

But that's OK, you want to argue that the USA is a snake oil salesman and a country whose politicians cannot be trusted unless you get it on a signed document, that is fine - that is sort of what most of the world thinks of Americans anyway.

But guess what? Putin DID get a signed agreement — the Minsk Accords. And now thanks to the shocking admissions from Minsk negotiators Angela Merkel, François Hollande, and Petro Poroshenko, we know that the signed agreement was a ploy, a ruse that wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on.