The European Union won’t send armed peacekeepers to conflict-torn eastern Ukraine despite reports of ceasefire violations there, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Monday.
“We can only talk about a civilian mission, not military,” Tusk told a news conference in Kiev following talks with Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, according to the BBC.
Poroshenko said earlier the EU or the UN should deploy peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists have been shelling the village of Shyrokyne near Mariupol, the key port city in the region still held by the Ukrainian government forces.
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Source: Novinite
