Russia proposes peacekeeping force in Ukraine

However, he has warned that there are still too many “obstructions” in the plan Russia has proposed.

Kurt Volker, the special envoy, has said that the “is very interesting that Russia proposed a UN defence mission... is a step forward to bring this issue to question, and also to the Security Council”, he has said.

Ukraine's president, Petro Porosenko, has said that the purpose of such a peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine, proposed by Russia, should promote peace, not deepen, as he called the Russian “cupiscation”.

Poroshenko said the mission should patrol the entire conflict zone, including the border with Russia and the separatist parts of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which according to Kiev are used to transport weapons and military personnel from Russia