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Ukraine’s President Calls for International Peacekeeping Mission


Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called for an international peacekeeping mission for his country after ordering several thousand of his troops out of the strategic eastern Ukrainian town of Debaltseve, which has been taken over by Russia-backed separatists.

Poroshenko’s office reported late Wednesday that a meeting of the country’s National Defense and Security Council chaired by the Ukrainian president had come to a decision that the United Nations should be asked to send “a peacekeeping mission, which will act in accordance with the mandate of the U.N. Security Council.”

The move came just hours after thousands of Ukrainian troops fled Debaltseve, a …read more

Source: Voice of America

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