Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and MPs from Batkivschyna faction have agreed to cooperate when designing a road map for de-escalating the situation in the country's east, the deputy head of the presidential administration, Valeriy Chaly, has reported.

"Today we reached agreement, and this is a completely new style - that the president is ready to communicate with the deputies on definite stages of the difficult process of [designing] a road map on ending the war," Chaly told journalists after the president met with MPs from Batkivschyna on Wednesday.