Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that any attempts to pressure Ukraine over its political structure and amendments to its Constitution on decentralization and the status of certain areas in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts will be fruitless.

“Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state, and neither Ukraine, nor I as its President will allow terms to be dictated to us by the East or West,” he said in an interview with 1+1 TV channel on Sunday.