The issue of the armed police mission in Donbas is being constantly discussed, but Russia does not agree to its deployment, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

"We try to put forward this issue in the Vienna format practically every day. [...] The latest round of these consultations took place in Vienna in late June, but today we see no desire of Russia to actually deploy the efficient full-scale armed police mission in such a way that it would objectively control the security situation, in the context of both preparations for the elections and assistance to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission," Klimkin said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

The problem is that Russia has opportunities to influence this issue not only at the stage of consideration, but also at the stage of adoption, he said.

Klimkin also said that postponement of the issue of deployment of the armed police mission to Donbas leads to a delay in achievement of the actual results in the context of the 'roadmap' implementation.

"We need to agree upon the mandate of this armed police mission and initiate its deployment as soon as possible," he said.