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On July 7, 2019, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visited Stanytsia Luhanska during a working trip to Luhansk region and advanced more than half a kilometer into the separation zone outside the zero position of the AFU. Together with President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Volodymyr Zelensky passed through the last checkpoint of the Ukrainian military and reached a destroyed bridge used by people crossing the line of delimitation. Plans are to rebuild the bridge if a truce were to hold.
“We want to rebuild this bridge. I have reached a public agreement with our government: we find the money and promptly build it. For this end, it is necessary to pull back the fortifications of the other side. If they do it, we will start building the bridge and complete the construction promptly,” Zelensky said.
He emphasized that during the construction of the bridge, people would have an opportunity to cross the delimitation line.
Zelenskyy and Tusk also visited the drag road of the 8th company of the 25th separate airborne brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and debriefed the military of the current security situation in the JFO area.
“The troops were separated. The commanders are ready. There is no ‘treason’ at all,” Chief of the General Staff – Commander-in-Chief of the AFU Ruslan Khomchak noted.
Also, Zelensky spoke with Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Mark Etherington, about coordination of actions in this region.
In addition, he inspected the positions of the Ukrainian military moved as a result of separation of forces and got acquainted with humanitarian projects in Donbas implemented with the support of the European Union.
