Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on representatives of different churches and faiths to help implement his plan to restore peace to the country's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the head of state's press service said.

"Our Church should not stand on the sidelines. It seems to me that in these conditions the Church's involvement and its charitable mission would be increasingly important," Poroshenko was quoted as saying by his press service.

Representatives of all faiths are welcome to contribute to this process, he said.

Poroshenko's initiative has won support from Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Onuphriy and Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, according to the presidential press service.