It’s hardly likely that UN peacekeepers are deployed in Donbas in the near future under current conditions in Ukraine.

“The issue of peacekeeping operation remains open. Is it relevant? Yes, it is. Can we say that such an operation can start in the near future under the conditions on which the former and the incumbent presidents of Ukraine and the partners of Ukraine have insisted? No, it's hardly likely,” Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.

He also added that Russians had a different understanding of a peacekeeping operation.

"The UN peacekeepers do not parachute down and do not begin to ‘force someone to peace’ as the Russians understand this. And we saw ‘peace-enforcement operations’ through the examples of Georgia, Transnistria and other countries. Therefore, we do not need a peacekeeping operation on Russian terms, and such an operation on the terms of Ukraine and its partners is now impossible as the Russian Federation has veto powers at the Security Council,” Kyslytsya stressed.

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