Russia and the United States appear to be a long way from agreeing to send international peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine, after their latest round of talks on how to end a conflict that has split the region and killed 10,000 people since 2014.
“We discussed in detail the Russian initiative on deploying United Nations forces to Ukraine,” Kremlin envoy Vladislav Surkov said on November 14, two days after he met US special representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker in the Serbian capital, Belgrade.
