Ukraine Peacekeeper

From UNIAN:
"U.S. says peacekeepers should be deployed throughout occupied parts of Donbas"

The United States cautiously welcomed a Russian proposal to send UN peacekeepers into eastern Ukraine, but insisted Wednesday the force should be deployed throughout embattled eastern Ukraine and not just on the line of conflict, according to The Associated Press. A UN force is “worth exploring,” the U.S. State Department said, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country would ask the UN Security Council to send peacekeepers in Donbas, AP reported. The U.S. said such a force could protect Ukrainians of all ethnicities and help restore Ukraine’s sovereignty. Any such force should have a broad mandate for peace and security throughout the occupied territory in Ukraine,” said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert. Putin’s unexpected embrace of a UN force has been greeted with tentative optimism from countries that have worked to solve the crisis, given that Ukraine, too, has long called for U.N. peacekeepers. Yet a fault line immediately emerged that could scuttle prospects for an agreement: Disagreement over the scope of the peacekeepers’ mandate. As UNIAN reported earlier, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin considers the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Donbas “quite appropriate,” but only along the line of contact and with the aim of protecting the OSCE mission Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko said that a UN resolution draft presented by Russia on Donbas had nothing to do with peacekeeping. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on August 22 he planned to send a motion to the UN General Assembly the coming month, asking for deploying a peacekeeping mission throughout Donbas. He recalled that during a phone call of the Normandy Four leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France on July 24 he pointed out to the need to introduce a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas with a UN Security Council mandate.

^ Peacekeepers have been needed in the Ukraine ever since the War in the Donbas started and the Russian invaded, occupied and annexed the Crimea. For years the Russians didn't want any peacekeepers in the Ukraine (probably to cover-up all their military actions there) and now all of the sudden the Russians are the ones pushing for the peacekeepers. The US and any one else who sends peacekeepers to the Ukraine need to be very cautious  - especially when dealing with the Russians politically and militarily. Russian peacekeepers in the Ukraine could just be a ruse to get Russian soldiers throughout the Ukraine to take over more parts of the country than they already have. The Donbas and the Ukraine need to have international peacekeepers to try and stop the Russian-backed rebels from killing more people. ^


 https://www.unian.info/politics/2119906-us-says-peacekeepers-should-be-deployed-throughout-occupied-parts-of-donbas.html