KIEV: Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine called on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) for an emergency United Nations Security Council session that could authorize sending international peacekeepers into the war zone.

The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said in a statement it was seeking “the intervention of a peacekeeping force that includes Russian representatives to control the implementation of existing agreements and help resolve the humanitarian and social situation”.

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