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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is visiting Donetsk region, presidential press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko has said.

“The president is visiting Donetsk region,” Tsegolko wrote on Twitter on Monday.

Ukraine’s NGO Donetsk Institute of Information reported that the Ukrainian-controlled town of Kramatorsk is one of the president’s destinations. New ambulance vehicles, which Poroshenko is planned to present to the local medical service, were brought to Kramatorsk from Mariupol.