MOSCOW (REUTERS) - 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.

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.