U.S. Ambassador Kurt Volker, the Trump administration's special envoy charged with ending the war in Ukraine, says that his recent meeting with Vladislav Surkov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Belgrade on November 13 on a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas, was a "step back," according to the U.S. edition of the POLITICO magazine.
The U.S. and Russian envoys for the Ukraine crisis will meet later this month to explore deploying United Nations peacekeepers to the eastern part of the country in an effort to jump-start the stalled Minsk peace process, according to Bloomberg.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that a bill designed to end the Russian occupation of Donbas will strengthen Kyiv's position in talks on the release of prisoners of war and possible deployment of United Nations peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have discussed positions on the implementation of an initiative to deploy a UN peacekeeping mission to occupied areas in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, according to the presidential press service.
Russian President's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov claims there is no talk of deploying a UN peacekeeping mission on the Ukrainian-Russian border, according to an UNIAN correspondent in Russia.
The UN Security Council backed reforms Wednesday to reduce inefficiencies, corruption and abuse in the UN's far-flung peacekeeping operations, The New York Times reports.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed Ukraine's request sent to the United Nations Security Council for deploying a peacekeeping mission in Russian-occupied Donbas, eastern Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has shared details with German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the Russian initiative of a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas, according to a statement posted by the Kremlin.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he has discussed the possibility of deploying the UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas with U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Despite the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the country will continue participation in the UN peacekeeping operations and cooperation with the UN in other areas, that's according to President Petro Poroshenko who gave a joint press statement with UN Secretary General António Guterres following their Sunday negotiations, the president's press service reported.