Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has responded to reports about plans by leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ("DPR") to create a new separatist entity, "the state of Malorossiya."

Axar.az reports citing UNIAN.

"The Novorossiya project has been buried. Ukraine will regain sovereignty over Donbas and Crimea," Tseholko tweeted on Tuesday quoting Poroshenko as saying.

Before that, "DPR" leader Alexander Zakharchenko announced the creation of a new separatist entity, "the state of Malorossiya," with Donetsk being its capital.

"Zakharchenko is not a political figure, but a puppet transmitting the Kremlin messages," Poroshenko said at a press conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he is currently on a state visit.