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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said he plans to return the occupied parts of Donbas under Ukraine’s control by political and diplomatic means, the president’s spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko wrote on Twitter.
At the same time, Ukraine needs a strong army, Poroshenko said during his visit to Ternopil.
"We will return Donbas by political and diplomatical means. But we must have a strong army," Tsegolko quoted the head of state as saying.
Read alsoSummary of Donbas reintegration bill: Russian occupation, liberation, division of powersAs UNIAN reported earlier, 28 full-fledged combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been trained in line with NATO standards.
It was also reported that in 2017, some 297 instructors have already been qualified to train military personnel according to NATO guidelines. A total number of such military instructors since the beginning of the military reform has reached about 1,200, with 600 of them having been trained with the participation of foreign supervisors.