Ukraine sends peacekeepers to Mali

Ukraine’s national personnel of five people will join the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali on July 23, the press center of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Facebook.

At the moment, 61 representatives of the Ukrainian national personnel perform missions in the UN, NATO and joint peacekeeping forces in the following countries:  

• the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (12 people);
• the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (two persons) ;
• the UN mission in the Republic of South Sudan (four people);
• the UN temporary security forces in Abyei (six people);
• the UN peacekeeping forces in Cyprus (one person);
• NATO training and deliberative mission “Strong support” in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (21 people);
• the United Nations Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (five people);
• Joint peacekeeping forces in the security zone of the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova (ten military observers).

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