1、2025/5/1 11:50United Nations Peacekeeping for Ukraine Under Scrutiny|Royal United Services Institutehttps:/www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/united-nations-peacekeeping-ukraine-under-scrutiny1/8COMMENTARYUnited Nations Peacekeeping for Ukraine UnderScrutinyCommander Edward Bl
2、ack30 April 20259 Minute ReadAs the prospect of a cease?re in Ukraine grows,United NationsPeacekeeping Operations were held up to the light at a UNSecurity Council meeting in March 2025.Any Ukraine cease?re will likely require a follow-on peacekeeping e?ort,at atime when the United Nations is lookin
3、g to reform Peacekeeping Operations(PKO).On 24 March 2025,the United Nations Security Council(UNSC)held its9884th meeting to discuss the future of PKOs and inform a PeacekeepingMinisterial to be held in Berlin in March this year.The possibility of a Ukrainecease?re,the challenge of expanding mandate
4、s and the complexity of multi-dimensional PKOs elsewhere makes this a timely and pertinent debate forthe UNSC.UN peacekeepings principles are:consent of the main parties,impartiality,non-use of force except in self-defence and defence of the mandate,withsome referring to a fourth principle of and ma