Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukrainian sovereignty in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions will be restored as early as this year.
At my press conference on January 14 I clearly proclaimed: my objective – and I firmly believe in this – is to restore Ukrainian sovereignty in Donbas already in 2016. And yesterday speakers in Davos also reaffirmed this position: in 2016 Russia must implement all points of the Minsk agreements,” he said at a general meeting of the Association of Ukrainian Cities in Kyiv on Saturday.