Kremlin official says Russian police will stay in Ukraine’s Donbas after peace

The war continues between Russia and Ukraine as ceasefire negotiations continue (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

A senior Kremlin official says that the Russian police and National Guard will remain in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas to oversee the prized industrial region, even if a peace settlement ends the nearly four-year war.

It is a possibility that is likely to be rejected by Ukrainian officials as US-led negotiations for peace drag on.