Russia called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday to introduce a resolution calling for an immediate halt to violence in Ukraine.
Russia holds the Security Council presidency in June and Russia's UN Mission said the closed consultations will take place at 2000 GMT.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia will seek Security Council action to end weeks of deadly clashes in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine between government troops and pro-Russian rebels.
Lavrov said:
Russia plans to submit to the Security council a draft resolution today. It will contain demands to immediately halt violence and begin practical negotiations for the purpose of establishing a stable and reliable ceasefire.
"This draft resolution will also contain a requirement to immediately create humanitarian corridors that will help civilians leave hostility zones, should they wish to do so," said Lavrov.
Five Russian-backed separatists were killed, and eight wounded as of 11 a.m. amid ongoing fighting at the Border Guard Service coordination center in Luhansk Oblast after it was assaulted around 12:30 a.m. this morning, the country's border guard service reports.
Seven border guard servicemen are also wounded, the statement said, adding that by 1:30 p.m. the fighting had ended, with both sides reaching a truce to evacuate their wounded.
On June 2, about 100 armed insurgents attacked the border guards' coordination center near Luhansk around 12:30 a.m. The border guards exchanged fire with the insurgents over the next several hours, repulsing two attacks as the group swelled to 400 by 7 a.m.
Their goal was to "destabilize the capability of border guard servicemen to coordinate action along the Ukrainian-Russian border," stated Vladyslav Seleznyov, counterterrorism operation spokesperson, via telephone at a news briefing in the Ukraine Crisis Media Center.
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