Leader of the Ukraine War "Rebel" Donetsk People's Republic press conference

patricklancaster (58)in #ukraine • 8 years ago

Alexander Zakharchenko, the Leader of the Ukraine War "Rebel" Donetsk People's Republic at fridays press conference
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Your questions, please
Name yourself

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-Yesterday was one year anniversary of the assassination of Mikhail Tolstykh (Givi).Could you please tell us what is the phase of the investigation of this case? Is there any progress?

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All the people involved in this crime were identified. Some of them were detained.
How many?

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Not all that involved were detained. Unfortunately I can't tell you all. All the pople involved in this were identified.We are searching for the people that hasn't been arrested.

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I believe we will finish the case this year.

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I would like to add that people who had been arrested in a case relating to an assassination of Mikhail Tolstykh were connected with an assassination of Arsen Pavlov. These cases overlapped.

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-There is an information in mass media and the reconnaissance data says that the Ukrainian side is planning the military offensive. Is this real? How fast can the DPR Army react on this military offensive?

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We are waiting for the military offensive. The attempts were made many times, the enemy wanted to find our weak sides.The army is ready.

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Because of the reconnaissance we know some directions. Yesterday the train with tanks came to Volnovakha, all the tanks are new.

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Today the military equipment is offloading in Slavyansk. We are monitoring this and we are wainting for this. We are ready to meet the enemy. They'll come, we are waiting for them.

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There is an information in the mass media that Ukraine is selling here foreign production rifle for $7000.

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It's too expensive. I won't buy it at this price.

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Is this true?

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I've told you, this is expensive. Do you understand? $7000 is too expensive, you can buy three rifle for this price.

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On your behalf the public headquarters for the front-line areas was created last year. How do you rate their performance and what tasks are set for the future?

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The main tasks remain the same. It provides assistance to people in the front-line. Gray zone we call it.

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The main target is to help people. I am critical of any projects. It has some gaps, but in general it works, assistance is provided for all the segments of the population.

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We would like to do it better but there are some reasons like war for example

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There are many fixed cases of incidence of measles, diphtheria, tuberculosis and hepatitis. We've got these diseases because our citizens are crossing the border with Ukraine

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Is there any epidemiological control at the border of Republic and what do the authorities do to secure citizens?

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I'm going to start with your last question. We have vaccines but Ukraine doesn't. That is why they have high prevalence of these deseases.

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How do you imagine the border control? Should we make barracks and make quarantine for 2 weeks?

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May be some extra medical servises are watching?

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How can you define has the person got sick? Only quarantine needed. We need barracks for this. We don't have any control at the border but it's not a problem.

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We know how to fight against the epidemic from the soviet times. The only mean is vaccination.

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We have the vaccine. You can pass through the infected areas, take your pension. The only problem is that our citizens take their children to Ukrainian side.

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You can think yourself should we prohibit the cross-bordering by children or not?

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We believe it will cause many questions. We are not going to build barracks.

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This is for sure. First hospital, than doctors and vaccination. You should minimize the contacts between our and ukrainian children.

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Don't take your children with you. All the rest is vaccination. If you do it in time it will safe your life and a life of your child.

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February 12 it will be 3 years after Minsk -2 agreement were concluded. Can we talk about non-alternative of the Minsk agreement?

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How do you see this? How serious is negotiating venue appeared because of the Minsk agreements?How do you find the work of this venue?

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We are not going to celebrate 3 years of Minsk 2. This is not a holiday for us. Minsk 2 have fallen short of expectations.

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But it's the only way to communicate with Ukraine. May be we will have an alternative in the future.

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We offered some solutions, we've changed the meeting formula. It doesn't matter how to call it -Astana, Geneva

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Unfortunately Ukraine doesn't want this. If there is no Ukrainian will Minsk 2 will stay the negotiation venue.The only one but not the main. We can make a new main venue.

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You've announced a year of 2018 as the year of economic. What areas of economic will be supported by government? What support should the villages wait for?

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Do you mean in the agricultural industry? What can be in the village? Repairing of the gas pipeline, power lines, telephone connections - these all are social programs in the villages.

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-The development of agricultural industry.

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-There has been a meeting today. We want to make things easier for our agricultural producers.

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May be it will be transfer of accounts or removal of customs duties on imports of spare parts and equipment - combine harvesters, seeders, winnowing machines, plows.

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Because of the economic blockade we had got an impetus in the economy. We must do something to survive.

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It was a huge loss from the other side. All the connections were lost and the economy declined significantly.

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The agriculture is not the priority. There is a war. All the economy is the priority.

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There are some branches of economy we should support. The first is the agriculture, it's one of the main.

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People want to eat and want to see products in the shops that are accessible and have a good quality. We also need to keep the potential from the USSR.

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I'm talking about the metallurgical industry and machine buildings. We will reopen some companies.

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We did a lot in 2017, we'll continue working on it. I'm talking about metallurgy. Some companies will help us to increase the output of metal and work more qualitatively in the metallurgy.

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There are new sales markets. Light industry and pharmacy we want to strengthen.

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Some medicines can be produced here. We are not producing all but the main medicines we can produce here.

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There is a lot of work. I can't mark the leading branch. We need to support a coal industry too.

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It's new mines opening. They were flooded or destroyed as a result of fighting. We have a lot of work to do.

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Not so long ago there were a round table. The main idea was the village support.There was an idea to give the start-up capital for the young businessmen in the villages.

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Are you ready to give the start-up capital for the young businessmen?

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I've been told about this. I told to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to arrest immediately.

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It sounds like scam. Today you are a young businessman and tomorrow you are a crook. How can you imagine this?

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For example,you are a businessman. Why should I give you money? They can come and say -give me some money I will grow pigs.

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What deposit do you have?

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The main target in the country is to provide work and pay the money for it. No one will give you money with no reason.

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Let's be realistic.There is a war in our country. What is the age of the young businessmen? 18-20 years old?

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First you need to marry, to create a family, to buy a house and to ensure the future for your child.

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You have a father who is a farmer, who has some land. For these businessmen who have a material basis we could give this help.

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The money you are talking about is when a young specialist, a doctor for example, came to Shakhtyorsk and got a flat.

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It's probably a good idea but we should be realistic. We need to think where does this money come from and what projects should they be given.

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What is a young businessman? If we start giving money tomorrow we will have 100 000 new young businessmen who would like to get some money or may be a million.

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Do you understand what I mean?

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You've signed a cooperation agreement and created a unified Customs territory with LPR. What are the prospects of this agreement? Can we cooperate in another fields like medicine, education?

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We cooperate with LPR in educational and medical fields.You can check how many students from LPR studies in here.

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We've met the military school and in every room we entered there were a couple of students from LPR.

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Our students study at the Lugansk medical University.

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Some words about the unified Customs territory. At the beginning we had our ways according to specific.

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The main reason we are separate is war. The war destroyed the plans we were making.

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The biggest military operation we had was in Debaltsevo. Soon there will be an anniversary of this victory.

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Before we didn't have huge operations before. So there was a time to fight and now there is a time to build bridges.

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What does it mean the unified Customs territory? This is a unification of our legislations.

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Without this action we can't talk about the unified Customs territory.

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If the laws are different and our business uses different rules it's impossible to have unified Customs territory.

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We've create a comission, signed the memorandum.The commission's meeting is taking place now in Donetsk.

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The suggestion of the commission is to make some joint regulations for the business.

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After this all the customs duties will be cancelled.

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This is a big push for the economical development of Donbass in general.

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This is one nation, we are brothers and we fight for the same idea.

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This is a very good sign. This is the first visit for the 3 years. It's a very good positive sign.

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What kind of work is made to bring back the mobile operator Vodafone UA?

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It's an interesting question. I look through the social networks and read what people write about it.

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We can bring them back, but where we will take tecnicians and equipment.

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Mobile operators Life, Kievstar, Vodafone are unique and they have different equipments.

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We can take towers under control. It's 300 kg of metal we have 1 500 towers.

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But we can't restructure receivers.

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One more thing. We weren't the one who cut the connection.

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If we did this, we would be ready for this. It was such a surprise for us like for all the inhabitants of the DPR.

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The main task for the Ministry of Communications today is to establish high-quality communication in the shortest period of time.

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Very much is done for this. If before 2-3 towers were put in a month, two towers put each day now.

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The ministry asked for a month and a half to guarantee quality communication throughout the territory of the DPR.

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There are problems.Since we were not ready to disconnect "Vodafone",

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we counted on planned sales of starting pacts taking into account the average monthly demand.

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On average 5,000 cards a month. Now we sell cards -18-20 thousand daily.

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Some people are doing 200 phone calls a day to ask to write his phone number.

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The excitement is projected to fall within 2 weeks. By this time the connection will be stabile for approximately 80%.

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And in a month and a half we will be able to provide the connection that was before the Ukrainian operator was shut down.

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Now we are negotiating with the Russian Federation about giving us roaming.

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In addition, this cut enabled us to say "Vodafone" that we will not give them electricity for free.

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They need to pay including taxes. Until the last moment we provided "Vodafone"free electricity in order to have a connection.

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Money went to the territory of Ukraine, and Ukraine is an enemy.

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I also want to appeal to the public."Phoenix"exists for more than a year, and it was clear that sooner or later it will happen.

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It was necessary to gradually acquire cards. Then there would be no excitement. I appeal now - Buy "Phoenix"cards.

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The queues will exist for some time but "Phoenix"is a government operator.

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Ukraine can switch off the connection any moment.The minister is responsible for this personally.

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Last year in December you instructed the heads of cities and districts of the DPR to make an inventory of bomb shelters and provide them with everything necessary in case of shelling.

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How is your assignment carried out? In what conditions are the bomb shelters now?

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In a different conditions. Somewhere they reacted responsibly to this question and did everything they needed in the shortest time.

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Somewhere they do it slowly. Somewhere nothing was done at all. But it's all under my control.

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Three times a month a special commission comes out, which checks the bomb shelters.

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There are many problems. In general, approximately 60% are ready. Most of the problems are in the rear cities which are relaxed.

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They realize that they are not shooting and there will not shoot most likely. But we are putting this to an end.

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Shelters should be everywhere. Our inhabitants should be provided with this places where they can be safe.

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You stated about the inventions

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When? Can you say when I stated?

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No, I can't.

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You see. Yes,I did.There was a moment.We have some inventions mostly in a pharmacy field.

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We need to be recognized to patent our inventions and technologies.

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Without the patent these technologies will be stolen.There are still arguing about who created radio and a train.

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How many inventions from the USSR were sold? When will we have a chance to patent we will sell this at once.

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Couple of days ago there was a photo with new weapon. How is the development going?

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Very hard. We are missing different things, but we are looking for, making, shooting.

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You have an exclusive about the military–industrial complex (MIC)

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One year passed after Ukraine started the transport blockade. Was it good or bad for the DPR?

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I want to return to my previous answer. From one side this was a strong impact on our economy.

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There is a war and our territory is not so big. It was a strong impact. But I would say that this have given us more positive sides.

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We learned how to make something we couldn't do before. We believed we could trade and got the products we needed.

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Everything has changed. We've found the new markets.The deterioration of the economy lasted 8 month.

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Now because of this the new branches of economy are opening and new workplaces appears.The economy got a great impulse.

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You must do something if you want to survive. Our economy did good, our people did good.

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It had positive influence on us, I guess. We have learned to live in a different way. Ukraine hasn't .

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They don't want. I think it has a positive influence on us. But it was very difficult at the beginning.

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February 17 is the anniversary of the announcement of the Humanitarian Program for the reunification of the people of Donbass.

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What kind of moral and informative results can be talked about today? How much of what you planned a year ago was realized?

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We all gave something, not only me. We are one people and this is our land.

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For me Slavyansk, Krasnoarmeysk, Dimitrovo, Volnovakha, Velikonovoselovka are the territory of Donbass.

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The war artificially divided us, but in fact we are together

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This was the meaning of the program - to show our fellow countrymen that we are one, and secondly, to show the whole world that we do not perceive the dividing line as a border.

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And we succeeded. Successful implementation of the humanitarian program shows that in the same territory they live the same as we do

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and also hate the enemy and dream that the enemy will leave our land.

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We must be together, and the humanitarian program has allowed it to be done.The program does not collapse and will continue

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