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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has warned that, if peace is not brought about in Ukraine, nationwide martial law will be introduced.

“I warned at a meeting of the Ukrainian Cabinet of ministers even before
Minsk that, if there is no peace, we would have to make a very hard but
necessary decision on imposing martial law. I stress once again: in
this case martial law will be imposed not only on Donetsk and Luhansk
but also on the entire country,” Poroshenko said at a ceremony of
delivering equipment to Ukrainian border guards in Kyiv on Saturday.

The president said that having analyzed the legislation on martial
law, he will introduce to the Verkhovna Rada the amendments to the
legislation that will allow more efficient defense of the state, in case
that the peace is not established.

“First of all, we will rely on ourselves and will coordinate our actions with our partners and friends,” he said.