NEWSWATCH: “U.S. to Seek Russian Approval for Peacekeepers in Eastern Ukraine; U.S., Western officials hope Putin is seeking a way out of separatist conflict” – Wall Street Journal/ Laurence Norman, Julian E. Barnes

“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, U.S. and Western officials said. … driven by hopes in some Western capitals, including Paris and Berlin, that … Putin is seeking a way out of Moscow’s military support to Ukrainian separatists. * * * … U.S. officials said the White House has approved … providing Ukraine lethal weapons, including Javelin antitank weapons. No decision has been taken on when …. the weapons could be used to persuade a skeptical Ukrainian government, facing major domestic opposition in parliament, to embrace the peacekeeping effort. … [and] to signal to Moscow that the West is ready to increase its military support ….”

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