On 31 August 2015, the Verkhovna Rada read the amendments in the Ukrainian constitution required by Minsk II for the first time with 265 deputies voting for the amendments. But since then, it has not voted for the required second reading needed to implement the change in constitution. Passage of the amendment in this second reading requires an extended majority of 300 of the Rada's 450 seats, something that ''The New York Times'' has described as "all-but-impossible" (since all nationalist parties would vote against the amendments).