Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko plans to raise an initiative to station the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) armed police mission in Donbas at the 'Normandy format' talks shortly.

"In the near future, I am going to raise this issue at the 'Normandy format' talks, and OSCE armed police posts need to guarantee the run-up to (local elections in separate districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions) elections, the holding of elections and the regime of transfer of power to the leadership elected in line with the Ukrainian legislation at free, transparent and democratic elections, whom we will do with," he said in an interview with the Ukrainian television stations aired on Sunday evening.