Belarus cannot participate in the UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbass, as the country is a member of the Organization of collective security Treaty (CSTO), said the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Olena zerkal.

first head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Minsk is ready to take part in the settlement of the conflict in the Donbass, and among them in a possible peacekeeping mission.

Before that, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he supports the idea of sending UN peacekeepers to Ukraine, but we can only talk about the function of ensuring the safety of employees of the OSCE. Kiev believes that the UN mission should have a broader mandate and be placed on the entire territory of Donbas up To the border with Russia.

The Ukrainian authorities in April 2014 began military action against the breakaway LC and the DNI, who told about independence after a coup in Ukraine in February 2014. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict began more than 10 thousand people.

The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them in the process of the meeting in Minsk contact group, which from September 2014 accepted 3 document regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict. However, after the armistice agreements between the parties to the conflict continue shooting.

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