Putin states the USA Impeachment of Trump is phoney. Taken right out of the Republican playbook.

I am fairly certain the idea the USA House of Representative drummed up evidence for impeachment is not endorsed by allies. The Republicans need to realize who their international friends are; they should not be bragging about a political dogma Russia believes to be the best way out of the truth.

There is only one way to settle a peace in Ukraine and that is for Russia to LEAVE!

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MARC MURPHY, (LOUISVILLE, KY.) COURIER JOURNAL

19 December 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) has defended the pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, calling for direct talks between them and the Kyiv government to help restore peace.

He said Ukraine had accepted the rebel leaders' signatures on the 2015 Minsk ceasefire deal, so recognising them.

The separatists launched a Russian-backed insurgency in April 2014, seizing most of the Donbas region.

Ukraine denounced the rebels' claim to independence as an illegal revolt.

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