Russia said it will press ahead with President Vladimir Putin’s plan for United Nations peacekeepers in Ukraine, even after the effort stalled in the face of opposition from Washington and Kiev this week.
“We never lose hope. We don’t expect immediate results,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told Bloomberg News on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who on Wednesday attended a Security Council session on peacekeeping along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, vowed to oppose Russia’s insistence on only a limited deployment of the UN “blue helmets.”
