Gerashchenko says Putin does not need Donbas or Crimea alone, he wants to create a new, post-Soviet empire.
The main part there is a rather detailed plan of a step-by-step deployment of a mission along with the implementation of the Minsk agreements' political items, Surkov said.
Germany's foreign minister is calling for the establishment of an armed UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine before Russia's March presidential election, according to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin has forwarded a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asking for his assistance in the release of Ukrainians, the Kremlin's political prisoners, according to the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he thinks the United States proposes deploying a "UN administration" to the occupied areas in Donbas, the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry told UNIAN.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stressed that the Ukrainian delegation managed to resolve an important political issue during the Fifth Eastern Partnership Summit of uniting the positions of the EU countries around the possible introduction of a peacekeeping mission in Donbas.
Ukraine says the Russian Federation must not take part in the future UN peacekeeping efforts in the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine, that’s according to Ukraine’s Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, who met with his Canadian counterpart Harjit Sajjan, the ministry’s press service reports.