Belarus declares its readiness to provide a peacekeeping contingent to the Donbas
Belarus is ready to provide peacekeeping contingent to the Donbas, if it receives consent from all interested parties, as announced at a joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei.
"We are ready to allocate an appropriate peacekeeping contingent, if it is acceptable to all interested parties, in order to participate in solving peacekeeping tasks," said Makei.
He also noted that in October 2014, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with Euronews that Belarus would be prepared to send a peacekeeping contingent to the Donbas.
President Petro Poroshenko asked the global community to send peacekeepers to Ukraine as soon as possible at the UN Security Council.
On September 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his support for the idea of deploying a peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine. At the same time, Putin stated that the mission should only stand on the line of demarcation, and that Ukraine should coordinate it with the DPR and LPR. A corresponding Russian resolution was sent to the UN Security Council.
Ukraine, with the support of Western partners, expects peacekeepers to be deployed throughout the entire region of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, including an uncontrolled section along the border with Russia.