By David Francis with Sabine Muscat
Russia warns Ukraine about international peacekeepers. Ukrainian forces finished a brutal and bloody retreat from Debaltseve on Wednesday, closing the curtain on a theater of fighting with pro-Russian separatists. Now, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wants an international force to keep the fragile cease-fire, but pro-Russian separatists and Moscow say they would violate the peace deal. The Washington Post’s Karoun Demirjian and Michael Birnbaum: “Any international force on the ground would harden the battle lines after 10 months of fighting, forcing Ukraine to give up for now its attempts to reunify the nation.”
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Source: Foreign Policy
