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 Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Vitaliy Yarema has said there is no reason to declare a state of emergency in the country's eastern regions.

 “There are no reasons today to introduce a state of emergency. The anti-terrorist operation has already reached its turning point,” Yarema told reporters after a Ukrainian cabinet meeting on May 27.

Militiamen in the southeast of Ukraine “have already realized that making the Ukrainian army angry is tantamount to being one’s own enemy. They already had the chance to feel that during yesterday’s fighting at the Donetsk airport,” he added.

Yarema said that the anti-terrorist operation would be given a new quality after the president-elect is sworn in.

“I know that after the president assumes duties the operation will rise to a totally different qualitative level. Petro Poroshenko is the person who has assumed political responsibility for the situation in Ukraine, for order and for peace which must come to the east after all. Taking his ambitions into account, as well as pledges given to the Ukrainian people, including the election pledges, I have no doubts that we will restore order in the east of Ukraine quickly,” Yarema said.

He said that Poroshenko had not offered him a job in the government yet.