Ukraine’s Parliamentary Speaker and Acting President Oleksandr

Turchynov proposed launching a joint operation with UN peacekeepers in

the country’s eastern regions, in telephone talks with UN Secretary

General Ban Ki-moon. “Ukraine does not object to launching a counter-terrorism operation

jointly with UN peacekeepers in the eastern regions,” Turchynov told

Ban, according to the Ukrainian parliament’s press service.

Turchynov and Ban discussed the situation in the east of Ukraine, the press service said on April 14.