Is Putin 'blinding' Merkel and Hollande?

Agence France Presse (AFP) informs us that,

"The Ukrainian presidency on Thursday (29 April, 2015) said Russian President Vladimir Putin was open to the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in war-torn eastern Ukraine, after the leaders of both countries spoke by phone with their French and German counterparts." (AFP [Yahoo News] : 30 April,2015)

Two days after this call between the 'Normandy Four', Putin's propaganda spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, informs us that,

“That is not true,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov (right) told journalists on Friday. “The Russian side never challenged the idea of peacekeepers but neither Russia nor any other party guaranteeing the Minsk deal can agree to it, because first of all the parties in the conflict, i.e. Kiev and Donbass, have to agree on it.” (RT : May 01, 2015)

 What is telling is that that "dyed-in-the-wool" Soviet foreign minister of Putin, Sergei Lavrov (left), stated as early as March 21, 2015, that,

"The EU would not send a peacekeeping force to Ukraine unless the rebels endorse such a mission, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, commenting on Kiev’s request for a foreign ‘police force.’" (RT : March 21, 2015) 

What is rather interesting about this sequence of 'diplomatic' statements is that:

• Lavrov knew as early as March 21, 2015 that EU peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine was a non-starter
• Putin 'hinted' that he was 'open' to the deployment of peacekeepers, other that the OSCE, in eastern Ukraine on April 29, 2015
• Germany's Angela Merkel, and France's  Francois Hollande kept 'diplomatically' rather quiet about this 'hint' of Putin
• Poroshenko made this 'hint of Putin' globally public and, as a result,
• Putin's mouthpiece, Dmitry Peskov, had to deny it on the 1st May, 2015.

It is quite disconcerting that both Merkel and Hollande are not so much oblivious to Putin's lying, but rather oblivious to the fact that he is at war with Ukraine.

Merkel, like her foreign minister Steinmeir, is entrapped within the German "Putinversteher" mentality, whilst Hollande is entrapped within the French "romantic view of Russia" that has its roots stretching back as far back as Catherine the Great.

And whilst Merkel and Hollande are keeping their lips tightly shut, Steven Hurst informs us that,

"The [US] State Department says Russia is beefing up its troops and weapons along the Ukrainian border. Meanwhile, the U.S. has dispatched 300 American military trainers to work with the Ukraine army, and other NATO members are adding hundreds more.

Experts say that's a fuse of a much wider conflict waiting to be lit after a year of battle that the U.N. says has taken at least 6,100 lives." (AP [Yahoo News]: May 2, 2015)

Given that the US is now openly admitting that,

".... they’re going to use a more apt term to describe the forces fighting Ukrainian soldiers: “Combined Russian-separatist forces.” The move is seen by many as an admission by American officials that Russia is solely responsible for the violence in that nation", ( Noah Rothman : HotAir: May 1, 2015)

why are Merkel and Hollande still preferring to ignore the fact that Ukraine is at WAR with Putin's Russia?

Are they blindingly ignoring the fact that Putin is massing his forces on the eastern Ukrainian border with Russia, as well as ramping up the attacks of his proxies and Russian soldiers against Ukrainian forces protecting Mariupol against his imminent invasion of this strategic city?

And why their silence about Putin 'hinting' at the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine???

(to be continued)