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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden have agreed that the only way to achieving peace in Donbas was compliance with the Minsk agreements.

Poroshenko said this at a joint press conference with Biden in Kyiv on Friday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported.

"We have reached a complete agreement that the most acceptable, basic format for ensuring the peace process is the format of the Minsk agreements, the trilateral contact group, where we must ensure several key elements of the Minsk peace plan," the president said.

Poroshenko recalled that this included, in particular, an immediate ceasefire, the creation of a buffer zone, the closure of the border, the withdrawal of foreign units and armored vehicles from Ukraine and the immediate start of a political process before the holding of local elections in line with Ukrainian legislation in the temporarily occupied territory.