Ukrainian law enforcers plan to deploy additional forces and expand the operation to Donetsk and Luhansk during the May 25 presidential polls, RIA Novosti reports.
It is unclear how many soldiers of the National Guards and the Armed Forces and volunteers will be sent.
The Ukrainian parliament passed the text of a memorandum of peace and consent that will withdraw forces from the east. Russia suspects that the operation will only expand.
Kiev has been stabilizing the situation in the east since the ousting of the old government on February 22. Moscow demands that the operation in the east be stopped.
