President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has declared that immediately after the second round of presidential elections Ukraine will begin an important stage in liberating the occupied territories by peaceful means.

"Politically and diplomatically, immediately after April 21, we begin a very important stage in the return of Ukrainian sovereignty in the occupied territory of Donbas, through the program of restoring Donbas' sovereignty, through the international platform we will return our boys and girls who are absolutely illegally in Russian prisons, we will return Ukrainian naval sailors, we will return our fighters who are in the basements of the occupied Donbas," Poroshenko said.