The Ukraine-EU Association Agreement has begun to compensate for losses from war and the breakup of economic relations with Russia, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

"The agreement on association with the European Union is working and gradually compensating for colossal losses inflicted by war and economic aggression from Russia. Moscow is trying to smother us with the shock shutdown of its market and blocking of our transit to other countries," Poroshenko said at a military parade dedicated to the 25th anniversary of independent Ukraine in Kyiv on Wednesday.