Ukraine wants the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to consider deploying an international, armed police mission in the secessionist Donetsk-Luhansk territory. The declared rationale is to provide security for “elections” that might be staged in that territory under the Minsk armistice—elections that Ukraine deems illegitimate from the outset. The implied rationale, however, is to provide at least the modicum of an international armed presence in this territory, where Russia and its local proxies hold the monopoly on military presence and policing (see accompanying article).
Kyiv’s idea presents the OSCE with the chance of its lifetime; indeed with a …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation