DPR asks UN to send peacekeepers to Donbas to oversee truce
MOSCOW. Nov 25 (Interfax) - The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) has proposed the deployment of a joint Russian-European peacekeeping contingent to eastern Ukraine.
"We are asking the UN to send a combined peacekeeping contingent here involving Russian and European peacekeepers," DPR Supreme Council Deputy Speaker Denis Pushilin told Interfax on Tuesday.
Representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) may also join such a peacekeeping contingent if they manage to receive a supervisory mandate in addition to their monitoring functions, Pushilin said.
"It is highly important for peacekeepers not only to be able to register human rights violations, which is still quite important, but also to perform the function of truce supervision and monitoring. They can work both along the parties' line of contact and in districts witnessing some of the most bitter fighting, in places where civilians have been killed," he said.