Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin stated that no one in the UN Security Council supported the Russian formula for a UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbas. The minister’s statement was made against the background of the Ukrainian delegation’s submission of its own resolution on peacekeepers. Incidentally, this is not the first such Ukrainian project. Ukraine has sent proposals on the deployment of UN peacekeepers in the Donbas last year but they were not considered in the Security Council because of Moscow’s objections. I have no doubt that this will be the case again. Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov has already announced that Ukraine’s proposals for the deployment of peacekeepers are contrary to the Minsk agreements. After all, these agreements do not call for any peacekeepers.
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An armed Russian-backed separatist walks past a convoy of the OSCE near village Pryshyb, near Lugansk, on April 25, 2017, where a OSCE patrol vehicle was destroyed in an explosion on April 23, 2017.
