BERLIN – Ukraine on Sept. 14 welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declared openness to deployment of United Nations peacekeepers in separatist-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine, but said Russian troops must not join such an operation.
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An armed Russian-backed separatist walks past a convoy of the OSCE near village Pryshyb, near Lugansk, on April 25, where a OSCE patrol vehicle was destroyed in an explosion on April 23.