Ukraine insists {that a} partner-led monitoring mission should start working concurrently with any ceasefire as a part of the negotiation course of.

Supply: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy whereas answering journalists' questions on-line on Tuesday

Particulars: In response to Zelenskyy, "our primary precedence is {that a} monitoring mission is already in place concurrently the ceasefire", working "below the management of our companions whom we belief".

Zelenskyy mentioned that such a mission would be capable of determine, amongst different issues, Russian "false-flag" operations. "They’ll do that technically. They’ve satellites. They’ve infrastructure. They’ve all the mandatory drone infrastructure for this," he mentioned.

The response to such incidents, the president added, is stipulated within the safety ensures. "As for the way to reply to this, that’s already the second a part of the safety ensures, the place level by level it’s specified how our companions will reply within the occasion of a ceasefire violation," Zelenskyy mentioned.

Background:

• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy introduced {that a} assembly of the Coalition of the Keen at adviser degree is scheduled to happen in Ukraine on 3 January, with a leaders' assembly in France deliberate for six January.
• Zelenskyy commented on remarks by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk suggesting the USA may deploy troops to Ukraine as a part of safety ensures after a peace deal is reached.

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