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Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has announced that Ukrainian police and the National Guard will join a peacekeeping mission to end the Russian occupation of Donbas.

“Today we are considering several scenarios for developments in the east, and we’re aware that the liberation of Donbas and retaking of the eastern border will be a police-led operation with the involvement of peacekeeping troops rather than the military,” he said at a meeting with delegates of the U.S. Council on Foreign Policy on April 6.

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