341 members of parliament out of 450-seat assembly support appeal to UN and EU for peacekeepers
The Ukrainian Parliament has passed a bill which calls for deployment of EU and UN peacekeepers to the country's war-torn eastern areas. 341 members of parliament out of the 450-seat assembly supported the bill according to the parliament's press service.
The bill, which was submitted earlier this week by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, anticipates peacekeeping and security missions in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions which will observe the implementation of the Minsk ceasefire agreement. The deal was reached on Februrary 12 by the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, Russia, and France.
Ukraine's Security and Defense Council has appealed to the UN and EU to deploy peacekeepers along the border which divides the militant held Donetsk region and government-controlled areas and along some parts of the Ukraine-Russia border.