MOSCOW (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin backs an armed OSCE mission to war-torn eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin said Thursday, in spite of objections by pro-Moscow rebels.Putin agreed to the deployment of such a mission during the talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, referring to Wednesdays four-way talks on the conflict with the leaders of Germany, France and Ukraine.There is an understanding on the positive nature of the deployment of such a mission, but it needs to be worked out in the framework of the OSCE.The OSCEs Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) has 580 unarmed staff based in the conflict zone …read more
Source: Dunya TV
