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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko again stressed that the draft amendments to the Constitution does not envisages any special status for Donbas, and the updated Constitution would not include the possibility of giving a special status of the capital and other cities.

“There is no separate status [for Donbas], however hard you may look for it. I open the working Constitution. “Article 92 The following are determined exclusively by the laws of Ukraine: 16) the status of the capital of Ukraine; the special status of other cities, that is there is the status in the working Constitution, but it also contains the possibility of the special status for other cities, and they wanted to use this provision of the Constitution,” Poroshenko said on Saturday at a meeting with representatives of territorial communities.

He said that Zaporizhzhya Regional Council passed an address to the Ukrainian president and parliament to provide a special status to it.

“…Then the parade of sovereignties would start. My amendments to the Constitution remove this article and there would not be a right to have the [special] status,” Poroshenko said.