DHAKA: Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday Russia’s move to revoke a resolution authorising military intervention in Ukraine was the Kremlin’s ‘first practical step’ towards settling the crisis in the country’s restive east.

Russian agencies reported earlier that Putin had submitted a request for the resolution to be revoked, reports The Straits Times.

The decision is ‘the first practical step since the Russian President formally supported the Ukraine's peace plan’, a statement posted on the presidential website quoted Poroshenko as saying.

BDST: 1837 HRS, JUNE 24, 2014