Moscow - President Boris Yeltsin asked parliament yesterday to approve the dispatch of Russian troops to Kosovo, as a senior legislator warned that many senators had reservations about the deployment.
Mr Yeltsin formally asked the Federation Council, the upper chamber, to vote in favour of sending 3,616 Russian soldiers as part of Kfor. A Kremlin spokesman, Mr Dmitry Yakushkin, said that paying for the deployment "would not be cheap . . . but we are talking about an important political action, and we must go for it."