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The foreign minister of the shadow government, Regions Party MP Leonid Kozhara, has said that the arrival of new U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Tefft in Ukraine will be a stabilizing factor during the presidential election campaign.

"I think that this is also important for all of the main players and candidates for Ukrainian president. I’m confident that the U.S. ambassador will speak with everybody, and this is to some extent will be a stabilizing factor in Ukraine," he said in parliament on Wednesday.

Kozhara said that the ambassador of such a big country as the United States would bring an element of stabilization and keep candidates for Ukrainian president from taking "radical actions."