Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine called on Tuesday (25/11/2014) for an emergency UN Security Council session that could authorise sending international peacekeepers into the war zone.
The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said in a statement it was seeking “the intervention of a peacekeeping force that includes Russian representatives to control the implementation of existing agreements and help resolve the humanitarian and social situation”.
The Ukrainian government signed a ceasefire with the separatist rebels in September but it has failed to end the seven months of fighting.
Almost 1,000 people have been killed since the truce, the United Nations said last …read more
Source: Herald LIVE
