A Putinesque Cease-Fire
After grabbing more of Ukraine, he bids to stop tougher EU sanctions.
Sept. 3, 2014 7:50 p.m. ET
Thousands of Russian soldiers have turned the military tide in eastern Ukraine, and now Vladimir Putin wants to secure his advantage. That's the essence of the cease-fire outline that the Russian autocrat proposed to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday.
The first of the seven points in the "Putin plan" calls for an end to offensive operations by Ukraine's military. The second seeks a withdrawal of Ukrainian forces to an unspecified "distance" from populated areas held by Russian forces....
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