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The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov denied Kyiv’s statement that Vladimir Putin agreed to the presence of peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine. This is reported by Interfax.
"Until all the texts of the Minsk agreements and their specific points are fulfilled, we believe that it is absolutely wrong to raise any other issues, including peacekeepers," Peskov said.
At the same time, he emphasized that Russia "never disputed the idea of peacekeepers," but he could not give consent to it without being a side of the conflict.
“First of all, this should be done by the interested aspects of the conflict - Kyiv and the Donbass,” Peskov said. In his opinion, now in the east of Ukraine it should fulfill its OSCE mission.
On the eve of telephone negotiations of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
"In the context of discussing the ways of peaceful settlement, President Putin agreed with the possibility of posting a peacekeeping contingent in the Donbass," the press service of the President of Ukraine said in a statement.
In mid -February, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko proposed inviting the UN peacekeepers to the Donbass. On February 19, the Council of National Security and Defense of the country supported this proposal of the head of state. At the same time, the Norman Four Foreign Minister did not support this initiative.
On March 16, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, said that Moscow is ready to participate in the discussion of the proposal on the direction of the peacekeeping mission to the Donbass , if there is an interest in the parties to the conflict. He noted that participants in the conflict must agree “on those forms of observation of the implementation of agreements” that they consider “mutual acceptable”.
Lavrov recalled that the Minsk agreements clearly prescribe the role of the OSCE special monitoring mission, but the topic of peacekeepers was not discussed during negotiations in Minsk.