Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hopes the "reset" of the court system will be completed before the end of 2016.

"We must finish this before the end of this year. We have no time to drag it out any longer, and I am not going to depend on parliament when they feel capable to make an important decision," he said at a meeting with the staff of a local enterprise in the Vinnytsia region on Monday.

The president stressed that he had asked parliament to urgently address the court reform. "Just as we did it last week: we filed several bills and insisted that these be considered over the current week," he said.