Why is Volker, Merkel, and Macron ready to "de-link" Putin's war in the Donbas from his illegal annexation of Ukrainian Crimea?

Laurence Norman and Julian E. Barnes (left) report that,

"U.S. officials are preparing to test Moscow’s willingness to end the Ukraine conflict by seeking Russia’s approval for 20,000 peacekeepers across Ukraine’s embattled east, U.S. and Western officials said.
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The U.S. is expected to raise the proposal with Russian officials in coming days, these people said. It is driven by hopes in some Western capitals, including Paris and Belin, that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking a way out of Moscow's military support to Ukrainian separatists." (Wall Street Journal : Nov. 9, 2017) (my emphasis)

We also learn that,

"The [Canadian] Trudeau government is facing increasing pressure to take a leadership role in war-torn eastern Ukraine by spearheading a UN peacekeeping mission to help stabilize the conflict between Kyiv and Russian-backed belligerents" (Steven Chase (right): The Globe and Mail: 9 November 2017) (my emphasis)

Furthermore, Canadian Official Opposition Leader, Andrew Scheer (left) has also stated that,

"A UN peace support mission "would allow Ukraine to restore control over its eastern border with Russia, ensuring the Russian military stays within its own country, and out of Ukraine," Mr. Scheer says in remarks to be delivered Thursday.
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[Scheer's Conservative Party] is calling for a peacekeeping mission that would be located at the Ukrainian-Russian border rather than at the front line itself in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine." (ibid Steven Chase) (my emphasis)

So whilst,

• US Special Representative to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, and Russia's Vladislav Surkov "...will meet later this month to explore deploying United Nations peacekeepers to the eastern part of the country in an effort to jump-start the stalled Minsk peace process." (Nick Wadhams: Bloomberg : 3 November 2017) (my emphasis), 
• and Macron and Merkel are, "driven by hopes ... that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking a way out of Moscow's military support to Ukrainian separatists" (ibid Norman and Barnes), 

Canadian politicians are more forthright that  ANY UN peacekeeping force in Ukraine MUST allow Ukraine to, " restore control over its eastern border with Russia, ensuring the Russian military stays within its own country, and out of Ukraine" (ibid Steven Chase)

Let us now recall that in a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on September 11, Putin suggested to Merkel,

"...[a] Russian initiative to set up a UN mission to facilitate the guarding of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM)," the Kremlin said. [This UN mission would be] "... the deployment of lightly armed peacekeepers to protect OSCE observers monitoring the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
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But he indicated that the peacekeepers would operate only along the front line separating Ukrainian government forces and separatists."(RFE/RL: September 11, 2017) (my emphasis)

 Which raises the question :

"Why is there a "de-linking" between Putin's war with Ukraine in the Donbas, and Putin's illegal annexation of Ukrainian Crimea?" 

As reported by Vladislav Gordeev,

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[Администрация США готова «забыть» о Крыме при переговорах по урегулированию в Донбассе, заявил спецпредставитель Курт Волкер. Он пояснил, что при этом Белый дом не собирается признавать присоединение Крыма к России]

"The US administration is ready to "forget" about the Crimea in the negotiations for a settlement in the Donbass, said special representative Kurt Volker (left). He explained that the White House is not going to recognize the annexation of Crimea to Russia" (RBC : 04/11/2017) (my emphasis) 

This "de-linking" of Ukrainian Crimea from Putin's war with Ukraine in the Donbass may have something to do with the fact that Putin desperately needs US-EU sanctions to be lifted so that the growing poverty of most Russians that have resulted from Putin's illegal annexation of Ukrainian Crimea, and his ongoing war with Ukraine in the Donbas, can be lifted.

As reported by Boris Vishnevsky (right), 

• In 2018, it is planned that Crimea will receive 130 billion rubles "free of charge, that is, for nothing". With own revenues of 38 billion rubles. "  [В 2018 году планируется, что Крыму «безвозмездно, то есть даром» пришлют 130 млрд. рублей. При собственных доходах в 38 млрд. рублей.] (echo.msk.ru/blog/boris_vis/2084924-echo/)

• "According to the figures of the Yabloko deputy in St. Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly , almost 2,000 rubles (32 US dollars) of each Russian’s taxes will go to occupied Crimea and an additional 700 rubles (11 US dollars) will go to cover the Chechnya of Ramzan Kadyrov." (Paul Goble : Window on Eurasia:Thursday, November 2, 2017) (my emphasis) 

As also reported by Tatyana Lomskaya (left),

"Low-income Russians have been unable to wait for an uptick in incomes and have turned to loans to meet their consumer needs. Experts, including the Central Bank, believe such borrowers are a danger to the economy." (The Russian Reader : 11 October, 2017) (my emphasis)

Putin's desperation to have that "sanctions monkey" off his back is becoming more apparent as the 2018 Russian presidential elections loom ever closer.

And whilst Volker is 'de-linking' Ukrainian Crimea from Putin's war with Ukraine in the Donbas,  Ken Dilanian reports that,

"After a business meeting before the Miss Universe Pageant in 2013, a Russian participant offered to "send five women" to Donald Trump's hotel room in Moscow, his longtime bodyguard told Congress this week, according to three sources who were present for the interview." (NBC News : Nov 9 2017) (my emphasis)

Yet again do we have more of the Steele dossier being exposed as, in all probability, factually correct.

After all, what happened in Trump's hotel room after his trusted bodyguard went to sleep in his own hotel room?

(to be continued)