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Kyiv supports the idea of deploying an EU police mission in Ukraine based on a UN Security Council mandate, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

“I will inform the European commissioner on the decision that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council made yesterday on inviting peacekeeping units to Ukraine, preferably in an EU police mission format, which should act based on a UN Security Council decision,” Poroshenko said at a joint press conference with EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn in Kyiv on Feb. 19.