Representative of Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group for the settlement of the Donbas crisis and the second president (1994-2005) of independent Ukraine Leonid Kuchma believes that the deployment of the UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas is possible only when Ukraine restores control over the Ukrainian-Russian border.

"In the format proposed by Russia, this is a mockery of Ukraine in the whole world, I believe. [The deployment of a peacekeeping mission is possible], only when Ukrainian-Russian borders are closed," Kuchma told reporters during the 14th annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy titled "Is the world new today? And what does this mean for Ukraine?" in Kyiv on Friday, answering the question about the possibility of placing the UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas.