Russia’s Putin Renounces Right to Send Troops to Ukraine: Kremlin
President Vladimir Putin asked Russia’s upper house on Tuesday to revoke the right it had granted him to order a military intervention in Ukraine in defence of Russian-speakers there, the Kremlin said in a statement.
The step seems certain to be welcomed by the West as a sign Moscow could be ready to help engineer a settlement in Ukraine’s largely Russian-speaking east, where a pro-Russian uprising against Kiev began in April.
Putin’s spokesman said Putin’s move was aimed at assisting the fledgling peace talks to end the conflict.
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