Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will go to the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), but he will not attend the Davos Ukrainian Lunch to be arranged by businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk, presidential press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko has said.

"The President of Ukraine will travel to Davos, Switzerland, where [he] will have an extensive agenda at the World Economic Forum. However, he will not attend the lunch to be organized by Victor Pinchuk," he wrote on Facebook on Monday.

Further, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze also decided to skip the Ukrainian Lunch, although he earlier planned to attend the event.

"In fact, I planned to go to Davos and attend in the Ukrainian Lunch, organized by the Pinchuk Foundation. The decision to go there had many reasons. The first and foremost was that if there is a high-level platform where Ukraine's position could be declared, it should be made most of it," she wrote on Facebook on Monday.

According to her, she wanted to once again clearly express the position of the Ukrainian authorities and society in Davos regarding the so-called "painful compromises" for the sake of the settlement of the Donbas conflict with Russia, which was previously voiced by Pinchuk.

"But then it became clear that the theses of the so-called "peace plan" have already been grabbed by Russian propagandists. They're trying to demonstrate that part of the Ukrainian elite is ready to let both Crimea and Donbas go; give up integration into the EU and NATO for the sake of reconciliation with the aggressor. This is being done in order to call our unity into question," she wrote.

She says she thinks such idea became possible pending an expected meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, "perhaps in order to show that Ukraine may consider such an option, and even agree to it."

"Given all this, the Ukrainian Lunch could be used to legitimize the issue. Therefore, the very fact of my participation in it may look like part of this process. And most importantly - my feeling is that the vast majority of Ukrainian civil society does not give me the mandate to represent the position of Ukraine at this event. Having considered the matter, I've decided not to go there," she added.