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The organizers of the blockade of trade with separatists-held territories of Ukraine have declared the intention to continue their blockade at Donbas.

“The blockade will go on! All the threats from corrupt authorities indicate that we are doing the right thing and give us strength and inspiration to block the ways of financing of terrorism and invaders, who are still free!” they said in a statement on Facebook page on Feb. 16.

The headquarters also said that there is a threat of storming the redoubts Bohdan, Zaporizhia, 16th Volunteer Battalion by the Interior Ministry leadership. They assured that this will not affect “a decision of the Ukrainian patriots to stop the bloody trade and financing of terrorism.”