According to the UN press service, regarding Ukraine's plans to request deployment of peacekeepers along the line of contact between Kiev and Donbas independence supporters, as well as on the border with Russia, "the Secretary-General informed the Foreign Minister [Klimkin] that the United Nations would stand guided by any decision the Security Council would make on this issue."
The UN chief also voiced hope that the ceasefire between the Kiev forces and the independence supporters, agreed at the February 12 Contact Group talks in Minsk, "would firmly take hold across the region."
Late Wednesday night, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council's secretary Oleksandr Turchynov announced Kiev's plans to request the United Nations and the European Union to deploy peacekeepers at the line of contact and the Russian-Ukrainian border.
Russia's envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said Kiev's request would cast doubt on the intention of Ukrainian government to adhere to the Minsk agreements that mentioned no such measure.
