Pax Putinum?

"November 11, 2019

Kyiv and Russia-backed separatists say they have completed a pullback of troops and weapons from a frontline area in eastern Ukraine.

The move is one of a series of confidence-building measures that could pave the way for a four-way summit aimed at ending the conflict in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions that has killed more than 13,000 people since April 2014.

Ukraine's military said Ukrainian forces completed the withdrawal from the Petrivske area in the Donetsk region at noon on November 11.

It said mine clearance in the area is set to begin on November 12, after monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have confirmed the pullback of forces.

A representative of the separatists in the Luhansk region previously said they had fully withdrawn from the area.

The disengagement began on November 9 following a similar withdrawal in a section of the front line in neighboring Luhansk region."

Ég hef lengi haft það álit á Putin að hann sé friðarins maður þó að Björn Bjarnason haldi því framað  hann hafi lagt undir sig Krímskaga með hervaldi sem ég tel ekki vera svo. Íbúarnir hafa alltaf verið Rússar og samþykktu að sameinast Rússlandi í þjóðaratkvæðagreiðslu sem er allt annar hlutur.

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