Moscow - Donbas 'people's governor' Pavlo Hubarev has shown respect for Russian President Vladimir Putin's request filed with the Federation Council for repealing the right to use the Russian Armed Forces on the Ukrainian territory but insisted on the deployment of peacekeepers in the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics.
“We ask for the deployment of a Russian peacekeeping contingent in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic. There may be different formats, for instance a UN format option, but Russia must play the leading role,” Hubarev wrote on Facebook on Wednesday, June 25.
He said he feared that Ukraine might bring EU peacekeepers to the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics after it signed the association deal with the European Union.
