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Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has registered a bill on a law over special status of Donbass devoid of effect on Tuesday, TASS reported.

Leader of the Radical Party Oleh Lyashko has submitted the bill. This news report was posted at the website of the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday.

President Petro Poroshenko said in his address to Ukrainian citizens on Monday that he planned to submit for consideration of the National Security and Defense Council the issue of cancelling the law on special regional status over the November 2 polls which Ukrainian authorities did not find legitimate.

Poroshenko noted that Kiev was ready to enact a new law on Donbass special status which would draw clear-cut borders of districts with special local self-rule status. However, among conditions for endorsing the new law he named several steps which the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics should take that would mean “a retreat” in the issue of the November 2 elections.

The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council will hold a meeting on this issue on Tuesday, November 4, Poroshenko’s spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko said on his Twitter account.