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Posted By richards on September 4, 2014

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service

MCT International Budget for Thursday, September 4, 2014

Updated at 0355 UTC (11:55 p.m. U.S. EDT Wednesday).

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^Ukraine's president seeks truce; Putin proposes his own peace plan<

UKRAINE-RUSSIA-1ST-LEDE:LA _ Collapsing Ukrainian government defenses and a growing public hunger for peace have forced President Petro Poroshenko to seek a truce with pro-Russia separatists at a time when the Kremlin-allied militants have the upper hand in the conflict, analysts said Wednesday.

Russia, too, could benefit from a pause in the fighting that would allow the separatists to solidify their hold on newly seized territory. But Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be holding out for a humiliating concession of defeat by Kiev.

Poroshenko's desperate search for a way out of the crisis was apparent in his premature announcement of a "lasting cease-fire" reportedly agreed with Putin on Wednesday _ a claim the Kremlin disputed.

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