Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matviyenko said she sees no logic in the US State Department's proposal to deploy UN peacekeepers on the border between Russia and Ukraine. "I do not see any logic in this proposal," the speaker of the Federation Council told journalists after meeting with Speaker of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan Akja Nurberdyeva. TASS.

Matvienko recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Russian Foreign Ministry to apply to the UN requesting the deployment of peacekeepers in the conflict zone in the Donbass.

"It was about the fact that today the OSCE mission on the territory of Donbass, on the contact line. And peacekeepers are needed to ensure the security of the OSCE, because in the OSCE there is no possibility of armed protection of those employees who are participating in this mission, "she said..

"If the OSCE staff are not only on the contact line (and they travel all over the territory), naturally, peacekeepers will accompany them throughout the territory, but accompany them, ensuring security. There is no other meaning in these peacekeepers, "Matviyenko said..

According to her, "if someone starts to dictate any other conditions, they do not understand what is happening in the conflict zone".

"There is a Ukrainian side, but there is also the side of Donetsk and Lugansk, who also have the right to vote, have their own position and opinion," said Matvienko.

"And those who would like to surround the inhabitants of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass with barbed wire and destroy these people simply, I think that this plan will not be passed," she summed up..