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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that while Moscow is not opposed an armed peacekeeping force in Ukraine's Donbas region, the OSCE has not yet determined under what conditions such a mission would operate, TASS reported.
In response to a question during an interview with the weekly Vesti V Subbotu program on October 22, Peskov said President Vladimir Putin did not object to a suggestion by Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko in Berlin on October 19 to have an armed police mission of the OSCE in the Donbas.
Peskov said "nobody objected to the idea to have an armed OSCE police mission there. But in this case it is a question mostly addressed to the OSCE as an
organization, which, by the way, is now chaired by Germany. The organization itself now is unable to explain the conditions of such a mission's work."
Representatives of the separatist groups in Luhansk and Donetsk have voiced strong opposition to such an armed mission under OSCE auspices, even organizing large public demonstrations against them in recent weeks.
Vox Pop in Sevastopol by RFE/RL asking people what they would think about the erection of a bust of Vladimir Putin: