Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko again stressed that the draft amendments to the Constitution does not envisages any special status for Donbas, and the updated Constitution would not include the possibility of giving a special status of the capital and other cities.

"There is no separate status [for Donbas], however hard you may look for it. I open the working Constitution. "Article 92 The following are determined exclusively by the laws of Ukraine: 16) the status of the capital of Ukraine; that is there is the status in the working Constitution, it is good and it should be retained. However, then we read "the special status of other cities." The current Constitution has this, and they wanted to use this provision of the Constitution," Poroshenko said on Saturday at a meeting with representatives of territorial communities.

He said that Zaporizhia Regional Council passed an address to the Ukrainian president and parliament to provide a special status to it.

"…Then the parade of sovereignties would start. My amendments to the Constitution remove this article and there would not be a right to have the [special] status," Poroshenko said.

He also said that the amendments to the Constitution include not the special status, but only a possibility of the specific order of local self-government in the particular administrative-territorial units of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which is determined in Ukrainian law.

The current Constitution of Ukraine in Article 92 of clause 16 says that the following are determined exclusively by the laws of Ukraine: the status of the capital of Ukraine; the special status of other cities.

The draft amendments to the Constitution regarding decentralization, which were approved by the Constitutional Court, clause 16 of Article 92 says that the following are determined exclusively by the laws of Ukraine: the status of Kyiv as the capital of Ukraine and the special status of other cities is removed.

The draft amendments also proposed that the provision in Article 133 that says that the Cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol have special status that is determined by the laws of Ukraine is removed and foresee that the specifics of Kyiv, Sevastopol in the system of the administrative and territorial structure of Ukraine is determined by the laws of Ukraine.