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News of Donbas chief editor Oleksiy Matsuka commends the new authorities for their achievements in the humanitarian dimension – that the bridge in Stanytsia Luhanska is being built and that residents of the occupied territories now have hope of receiving Ukrainian pensions.

At the same time, Mariya Ionova, an MP from Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity questions the price of these achievements by citing the fact that the new bridge would be “wide enough for tanks to [pass]”, which was one of Russia’s conditions.

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