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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with Swiss President Didier Burkhalter at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 7, 2014.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with Swiss President Didier Burkhalter at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 7, 2014.
(SERGEI KARPUKHIN/REUTERS)

Putin cools rhetoric, but NATO disputes claims of troop pullback

MARK MacKINNON

KHARKIV, UKRAINE — The Globe and Mail

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Russian President Vladimir Putin took a step back from confrontation with the West over Ukraine, calling Wednesday for pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country to postpone an independence referendum that had been scheduled for Sunday. He also said he had withdrawn troops from the Ukrainian border.