Ukraine has warned about the initiative to deploy a NATO peacekeeping contingent in Ukraine - this proposal, like others, should not freeze the conflict.
This was announced by Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba at a briefing in Poland, the UP reports.
"Since February 24, additional territories of Ukraine have been temporarily occupied. Our principled position is that Russia should return to the positions it held as of February 23. Accordingly, no initiative that will fix the status quo is in Ukraine's interests," he declared.
Dmytro Kuleba stressed at the briefing that no leader would dare to put pressure on Ukraine to speed up the negotiation process with Russia.
Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Law and Justice Party Jaroslav Kaczynsky said during his visit to Kyiv that Ukraine needs a "NATO peacekeeping mission of a broader international coalition." After that, on March 24, at the NATO summit, Andrzej Duda proposed to send a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine. There is no consensus in supporting this initiative yet.
Member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security Fedir Venislavsky believes that the deployment of peacekeepers can be realistic for humanitarian convoys, for evacuation of civilians from those places where they are in danger. At the same time, it is important for Ukraine that peacekeepers provide humanitarian corridors rather than be on a line of demarcation between Ukrainian [troops] and the occupier's troops.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not sure about the possibility of deploying a NATO peacekeeping contingent in Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelens stressed that Ukraine does not need a frozen conflict.
NATO peacekeepers are stationed in Kosovo, where the conflict with Serbia is actually frozen.