Dnipropetrovsk region willing to take over parts of Donetsk, Luhansk regions

 “On the basis of the returns of the referendums, the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian parliament] would have to issue a decision on changing the administrative territorial structure of Ukraine,” he said. Only after that would such territorial recarving be possible, Filatov said.

He added that the Dnipropetrovsk administration had made every effort “to prevent separatism from flourishing in the Dnipropetrovsk region.”