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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will soon hold telephone conversations with a number of world leaders, president's representative for settling the situation in Donbas Iryna Heraschenko has said.

“The president of Ukraine will soon hold telephone conversations…
with German Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, U.S. Vice President [Joe] Biden
and is to hold one more conversation soon with Russian President
Vladimir Putin,” Heraschenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on June 19.

According to her, Russia should comply with all its commitments to
ensure the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine, and should not
breach them.

“The president is doing much work in terms of international
consultation to ensure that our partners in the West, in the EU should
similarly uphold their obligations to Ukraine to ensure our territorial
integrity and independence,” she said.