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MINSK - Social payments in certain areas of the Donbas region will resume once the political situation stabilizes, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

“Social payouts must resume, but after stabilization of the political situation, holding elections and restoring Ukraine’s sovereignty in the occupied territories,” he told reporters after talks in Minsk.