UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — On Sunday, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko told Ukrainian Apostrophe news website that Kiev would intensify efforts on deployment of peacekeepers in Donbass during Ukraine's non-permanent membership in the UNSC
"We consider all the talks about the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine as an attempt to distract attention from Kiev's non-fulfillment of a number of key points of the Minsk agreements, signed on February 12, 2015," Churkin's statement reads.
Ukraine became a non-permanent UN Security Council (UNSC) member from the beginning of 2016 after a UN General Assembly decision on October 15, 2015.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko requested the deployment of UN peacekeepers to Donbass in February 2015. The deployment of peacekeeping missions has been deemed as "unacceptable" by DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko.
