The entry of UN peacekeepers in the rebel mining region without the consent of the Russian side is impossible. This was stated by the US Department of State's special representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker during today's Skype conference from Vienna. "There will not be a peacekeeping mission if Russia does not agree to this," the American "European Pravda". According to Volcker, UN should have heavy weapons. "The idea of ??peacekeepers is that they are needed for security in the region and for fulfilling the critical points of the Minsk agreements. We give preference to the peacekeeping mission, because we consider it the best for security. Russia's proposal to provide protection to OSCE observers does not meet these objectives, "said the American representative. At the end of November, Mr. Volker stated that there should be no citizens of Russia among the blue helmets.

In turn, Moscow believes that the Ukrainian side uses the theme of peacekeepers in order to bury the Minsk accords. Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference in Vienna recalled that the Russian Federation offered to arm them with small arms for the sake of safety of the OSCE observers in the Donbass. However, European countries seemed to. Then Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed the introduction of peacekeepers as security guards of the UN, which does not run counter to the Minsk agreements. "Our Ukrainian colleagues, unfortunately, with a kind of positive attitude of the US (at least, we heard this from K. Volker) want from the mission of UN peacekeepers to do, in fact, the external administration in the Donbass, which will solve all those issues that need to be coordinated in a direct dialogue between Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk, "Lavrov said.. According to him, instead of "mutually acceptable agreements on issues of amnesty, the special status of Donbass, the holding of elections, this administration", in Kiev's opinion, would decide for the Ukrainian authorities "the problems of returning the region to the bosom of Ukraine without special status". Moscow does not like a similar scenario of events.