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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has called on the U.S. to maintain strategic partnership between the two countries under any circumstances, Radio Liberty reported on Wednesday with reference to the foreign policy adviser to the president Andriy Fialko.

According to Fialko, the Ukrainian president said this in a letter addressed to his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama.

Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Fialko quoted the letter, which says that a high level of bilateral relations should be maintained under any geopolitical and domestic political situation.