U.S. to offer Russia a plan to deploy 20,000 peacekeepers in Donbas – WSJ

The U.S. officials are preparing to test Moscow’s willingness to end the Ukraine conflict by seeking Russia’s approval for 20,000 peacekeepers across Ukraine’s embattled east.

The Wall Street Journal informed this with reference to the U.S. and Western officials.

The U.S. is expected to raise the proposal with Russian officials in coming days.

According to the report, it is driven by hopes of some Western countries, including France and Germany, that Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking for a way out of Moscow’s militant support to separatists in Donbas.

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