Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko said on Friday the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine — the “Normandy Quartet” — have agreed on deploying an OSCE police mission to Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbass. <br /><br /> He was speaking in Kyiv a day after Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there had been no such agreement. <br /><br /> “Today, we have made a big diplomatic breakthrough. A common agreement on the OSCE police mission deployment was made not only at the highest level of the ‘Normandy Quartet’ , but also in Vienna, at the OSCE, under the German chairmanship,” Poroshenko told reporters. “Our German partners have already launched a discussion on deployment of the police mission.”<br /><br /> The OSCE’s monitors in Ukraine often work in a dangerous security conditions. <br /><br /> Political expert Mykola Davidyuk spoke to Euronews. <br /><br /> “The missions working in the conflict zone can’t access to all locations they need to monitor. OSCE observers have come under attack. Elections can’t take place in Donbas. It’s not a territory of freedom,” said Davidyuk.<br /><br /> The Normandy Quartet was created in 2014 to secure a peaceful settlement to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.<br /><br /> Euronews reporter Maria Korenyuk is in Kyiv. <br /><br /> “Elections in Donbas may be held only after Ukraine’s demands are met on security in the conflict zone,” reported Korenyuk. “President Poroshenko insists on taking control over Russian-Ukrainian border and establishing special observation posts with international forces. In any case, Kyiv will consider elections to be illegitimate.”<br />
