Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has long called for a UN mission for Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region to help with the reintegration of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. Russia has generally ignored these proposals or voiced outright opposition, and the responses by Western powers have been lukewarm at best. The focus has remained firmly on the Minsk agreement, even though implementation of the accord is deadlocked.
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Gwendolyn Sasse: A UN mission for Ukraine’s Donbas?
A resident of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk walks through her apartment building that was destroyed as a result of night shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists on June 24, 2016.
