Reports of Rada's special session on June 9 untrue, originate from Russia – Poroshenko

Rumors about the intention to hold an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada and to pass a law on the elections in Donbas or amend the Constitution come from Russia, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has said.

"The information that has recently been circulated by certain irresponsible politicians that on [June] 9 an extraordinary session [of parliament] will be held in secret, where we allegedly are going to adopt the law on elections or amendments to the Constitution... these rumors are not of Ukrainian origin," Poroshenko said at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.

The president said that during a meeting in Moscow with his French and German counterparts, "it was Mr. Surkov (Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov) who said that it would be good to start amending the Constitution on June 9."

"We will start with ensuring security. The law and the Ukrainian people give me as the president such right," he said.

Poroshenko also said that he has some constructive proposals to the parliament regarding the draft laws, which will be preceded by the adoption of amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine in the part of decentralization, same way as it happened when judicial amendments to the Constitution were introduced.