The idea of deploying UN- or EU-mandated peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine was first announced by the Ukrainian president in February. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon responded that the issue was up to the UN Security Council.
Moscow has called Kiev's appeal an attempt to disguise non-compliance with the Minsk agreements.
“It is known that President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has appealed to the United Nations and the European Union — to the UN in regard to a peacekeeping mission, and to the EU for a possible police mission. I can say that these ideas have not seen any support neither in the UN nor the EU,” Vladimir Chizhov told reporters.
The Minsk ceasefire deal between Kiev and eastern Ukraine's independence supporters entrusts monitoring the situation in the country's war-torn regions to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
