Russian President Vladimir Putin caught the international community by surprise by proposing a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Ukraine’s conflict-ridden Donbas region to protect the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitors. It was surprising because Russia had repeatedly threatened to veto Ukraine’s own proposal for peacekeepers, first made in 2015. But the gambit may have opened a diplomatic window of opportunity that we should explore.
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Alexander Vershbow: Real peacekeeping in the Donbas will put Putin to the test
Demonstrators carry placards reading "No armed mission of OSCE", and "Our security we will ensure ourselves," during a rally in the center of eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on June 10, 2016.
