Poland’s Kaczynski calls for peacekeeping mission in Ukraine

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attends a joint meeting with Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 15, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS

WARSAW, March 15 (Reuters) – An international peacekeeping mission should be sent to operate in Ukraine, the leader of Poland’s ruling party said on Tuesday during a press conference in Kyiv alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

“I think that it is necessary to have a peace mission – NATO, possibly some wider international structure – but a mission that will be able to defend itself, which will operate on Ukrainian territory,” Jaroslaw Kaczynski said during the conference, which was broadcast on Polish television.

Reporting by Alan Charlish and Justyna Pawlak; editing by Jonathan Oatis

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