He wrote about this in an article for the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
"We are a Ukrainian political nation, whose equal members are citizens of different ethnic origins, different confessions and linguistic communities," Poroshenko said, noting that Ukrainians have a "sense of belonging to European civilization."
Commenting on the article by Russian President Vladimir Putin "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians," Poroshenko said that Ukrainians are "on a drum" what the Russian leader thinks about it.
On July 12, the Russian president published an article "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians," in which, in particular, he stated that Russia has never been and will never be "anti-Ukraine."
He also called the emergence of a “wall” between the two countries in recent years as a common misfortune and tragedy, and spoke about the losses of Ukraine due to the severance of economic ties with Russia.
What Ukraine should be like is for its citizens to decide, summed up the Russian leader.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was ready to discuss "some things" from his article with Putin.