Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he will announce whether he will participate in the presidential elections scheduled for the spring of 2019 after the start of the election campaign.

"When the election campaign begins," Poroshenko told journalists in Kyiv on Friday on the sidelines of the 15th annual meeting of Yalta European Strategy (YES) organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, when asked when he will announce his participation in the presidential election.