U.S. and Russia to Renew Talks on Peacekeeping Force for Ukraine
- Envoy Kurt Volker to meet Russian counterpart later this month
- U.S. and Russia ‘not in agreement on this yet,’ Volker says
Ukrainian servicemen shot with machine guns during fighting with pro-Russian separatists in Avdiivka, Donetsk region on March 31, 2017.
Photographer: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
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The U.S. and Russian envoys for the Ukraine crisis will meet later this month to explore deploying United Nations peacekeepers to the eastern part of the country in an effort to jump-start the stalled Minsk peace process.
Kurt Volker of the U.S. and Russia’s Vladislav Surkov will meet Nov. 13 in Belgrade for a “discussion of principles” to see if they can agree on what a peacekeeping force might look like, Volker told reporters in Washington on Friday. “We are not in agreement on this yet,” he said.