Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced the upcoming rotation of the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces participating in the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas, the presidential press service has reported.

The head of state said during his visit to the site of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Avdiyivka (Donetsk region) on October 22 that Armed Forces units would soon return to their permanent sites in Volyn region, Bila Tserkva (Kyiv region), Chuhuiv (Kharkiv region), and Severodonetsk (Luhansk region).

"Other brigades are coming to replace you, and they will hold your positions firmly," the press service quoted Poroshenko as saying.

He also said that the Ukrainian army had completely changed over the past three years and that the Ukrainian soldiers were guarantors of the independence of the Ukrainian state.

"A Ukrainian soldier is a warrior, who fights for his land without giving a single piece of land to the enemy, a warrior against whom Russian propaganda and hybrid war technologies proved to be ineffective, a warrior who shows the best examples of loyalty to oath, courage and heroism," Poroshenko said.

The president thanked the servicemen of the 72nd, 14th, 92nd and 53rd brigades of the Armed Forces for the brilliant accomplishment of the tasks assigned to them.