KIEV, July 23 - President Petro Poroshenko at a meeting with representatives of groups and factions in the Verkhovna Rada thanked MPs for their support but criticized those MPs, who he said did not support the state's efforts in matters related to the country's sovereignty.

"Ukrainian President Poroshenko held a meeting with representatives of groups and factions in the Verkhovna Rada, during which he thanked the MPs for supporting his decree on partial mobilization and a parliament address to foreign countries to recognize the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics as terrorist organizations," the presidential press service reported.