Ukraine's partners in Europe and the United States support the deployment of an international peacekeeping mission to Donbas as an integral part of the Minsk Agreement's roadmap, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

"I am pleased to say that representatives of the [U.S.] Department of State have backed the deployment of peacekeepers throughout Donbas. Our partners in Europe - the French, the British, and the Germans - also support this idea. It is not that they want to see more armed people in Donbas. This is actually an absolutely integral part of the Minsk Agreement's roadmap," Poroshenko said in Kyiv on Friday.

"I might be the worst interpreter of Mr. Putin; it's hard to choose the correct words for comments on this subject, but we have been witnessing some kind of transformation, because he bluntly refused to discuss such issues [the deployment of peacekeepers to Donbas] at the beginning. He later said there might be an armed police mission, then he talked about peacekeepers being stationed exclusively on the contact line, and then referred to the entire territory. We are progressing towards the deployment of the mission across the entire area, including the uncontrolled lands, step by step," Poroshenko said.

"I would be happy to start a debate on the peacekeepers in New York next week, and to make stationing peacekeepers throughout Donbas an item on the 'Normandy Format' agenda," he said.