Ukraine is a unitary state: no federations or special statuses to emerge in Ukraine - Poroshenko

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has stated that Ukraine is a unitary state and there will be no federations and special statuses for individual regions. He said this during his speech at Kyiv's St. Sophia Square on Unity Day of Ukraine and the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Reunification Act between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, - UNIAN reports.

The president stressed that Ukraine should protect and strengthen national unity.

"It should be clear for everyone: Ukraine is a unitary state with one state language, as spelled out in the Constitution. No federations and no special statuses. The united, independent Ukraine", - Poroshenko noted.