[ 13 March 2015 14:30 ]



Baku – APA. Ukraine says it has placed a formal request with the United Nations for a peacekeeping mission to be deployed in the Donbass region.

This was stated by Yevhen Perebiynis, the director of the Foreign Ministry's Information Department, APA reports citing Associated Press.

 

According to Perebiynis, the size and scope of the proposed mission would be worked out in consultation with the UN, adding that the preliminary request for the mission has been submitted to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and that another would follow after Ukraine's parliament approves the proposal.