Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier discussed at their meeting a number of issues relating to the OSCE activities in the eastern Ukrainian territories beyond Kyiv's control.

"The sides have discussed strengthening international presence in the region and first of all, through deployment of an OSCE armed police mission in Donbas," the Ukrainian presidential press service said in a communique following the meeting on Friday.

Poroshenko drew Zannier's attention to the necessity of restoration of control over the Ukraine-Russia frontier section, across which, Poroshenko believes, military equipment and weapons continue to be shipped.

"In this context, the key is implementing provisions of the Minsk Agreements with regard to imposition, on the part of the OSCE, of a permanent monitoring over the uncontrolled section of the state border," the Ukrainian presidential press service said.

Meanwhile, Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich said earlier that restoration of any control over the section of the Ukraine-Russia border on the part of the Ukrainian authorities may not start until local elections are held in Donbas.