Reuters: Putin ally says no logic in deploying UN forces on Russia-Ukraine border

Published Sept. 17, 2017 at 5:56 pm

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (R), Russian Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko (C) and Russian State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin (L) attend the State Prize awards ceremony marking the 'Day of Russia' at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, on June 12.

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MOSCOW – One of President Vladimir Putin’s top allies said on Sunday she saw no logic in deploying U.N. peacekeepers along the border between Russia and Ukraine, something Kiev and Washington favour.

Putin this month suggested armed U.N. peacekeepers be deployed to eastern Ukraine to help protect ceasefire monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and to help end a conflict between Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed separatists, which has killed more than 10,000 people since 2014.