It seems the Ukrainians and their masters don't understand English that well. I can accept that from the Ukrainians but the POTUS should have a better grip on it.

http://rt.com/news/254889-ukraine-pe...-russia-putin/



"Russian President Putin did not agree to a possible deployment of peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine, his spokesman said in response to Kiev’s claims to the contrary.

Moscow insists that all points of the Minsk agreement are fulfilled first. The peacekeeper initiative was discussed on Thursday in a phone conversation between the so-called Normandy Four - the leaders of France, Germany Russia and Ukraine - which brokered the ceasefire agreement between the Ukrainian government and rebel forces. The office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed in a statement that Russia’s “President Putin agreed to an opportunity of deploying peacekeeping contingent in Donbass.”

“That is not true,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday. “The Russian side never challenged the idea of peacekeepers but neither Russia nor any other party guaranteeing the Minsk deal can agree to it, because first of all the parties in the conflict, i.e. Kiev and Donbass, have to agree on it.”

He added that Russia believes that any peacekeeper deployment would be relevant only after all points of the Minsk agreement are fully implemented and suggested that the OSCE - as the leading security institution involved in tackling the Ukrainian crisis - should be given priority in the mission"