Energy resources have ceased to be a political instrument and turned into an ordinary commodity, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

"The energy independence of our state has been ensured. In 2016 we just learned to live without Russian gas, and today we have proved to the whole world that we are able to live [without Russian gas], and gas ceased to be a political "running knot" and began to be an ordinary commodity," Poroshenko said at a meeting with representatives of national and foreign business in Kyiv.

According to the president's website, Poroshenko also noted coal is now becoming a market commodity.

"And no one else has the right to blackmail us after the first American ship with coal had arrived in Ukraine yesterday, as implemented by my agreements with President of the United States Donald Trump about the energy security of our state," Poroshenko noted.

CEO of the U.S. company XCoal Ernie Thrasher, in turn, handed Poroshenko and Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman a symbolic gift - a souvenir bag of the first American coal, which was delivered to Yuzhny port (Odesa region) from Pennsylvania (the United States) yesterday.