"We sincerely welcome it [the draft law], and I think this is one of the results of the negotiations that President [Petro] Poroshenko held in New York [on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly]," Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration Konstantin Eliseev said.
The Ukrainian government has been conducting a military operation in the country's eastern regions since April 2014. In February, 2015 Kiev and the southeastern militia signed a deal on Ukrainian reconciliation in Minsk, including a ceasefire, its monitoring and verification, and the withdrawal of weapons from the line of contact, among other points.
Earlier in the day, Russia expressed concern over the possible US supplies of lethal aid to Ukraine, saying it would go against Washington’s obligations and conflict settlement in the Donbas region under the Minsk deal.