Verkhovna Rada factions and groups continue to determine their position on the first reading of decentralization amendments to the Ukrainian constitution.

"The Opposition Bloc faction will support the bill adjusting the constitution in the preliminary vote," bloc member Oleksandr Vilkul told Interfax-Ukraine after a faction meeting on Monday morning.

"We have a lot of questions about the proposed decentralization model. However, this ballot paves the way to peace. So we will vote for," he said.

The People's Front faction in the Verkhovna Rada has decided to vote for decentralization amendments to the Ukrainian constitution, deputy Yuriy Bereza said.

He was asked what decision the People's Front faction had made regarding the vote on the constitutional amendments. "We will vote," Bereza said.

The Batkivschyna faction of Yulia Tymoshenko has yet to make a decision.

"The Batkivschyna faction is convening a meeting, and a decision will be made there," faction member Serhiy Sobolev told the agency.

The pro-presidential Petro Poroshenko Bloc supported the amendments.

Oleh Liashko, the leader of the Radical Party whose members are blocking access to the parliament presidium, said his faction was opposed to the aforesaid amendments to the Ukrainian constitution.

The Samopomich faction had disagreements. The deputies decided on Sunday they would not vote for the constitutional amendments, and Vice-Speaker Oksana Syroyid said on Monday morning that the faction would not vote.

The Euromaidan community wrote on Facebook quoting faction member Viktoria Ptashnyk that some Samopomich deputies would back the constitutional amendments despite what the faction had decided in general.

Unaffiliated deputies from the Svoboda party whose activists are picketing the parliament building said they would not vote for the constitutional amendments.

The Petro Poroshenko Bloc is unwavering and set to support the presidential draft introducing decentralization amendments to the constitution.

A meeting is being held in the office of Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman to discuss the blocking of access to the presidium by the Radical Party members and the vote on the draft law, Interfax-Ukraine has learned.