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Russia and the Syria-Israel Border: Background on UN Peacekeeping Forces in Global Conflicts
President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation volunteered his country’s troops to replace the Austrian members of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (Undof) on the de facto Syria-Israel frontier on the Golan Heights.