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Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says he has a plan for the return of the occupied territory of Donbas to Ukraine. It is called “tactics of small steps, which everyone applauds.”

“I do not think that it is possible to reintegrate the whole territory of occupied Donbas at once. There are not enough ‘blue helmets’ to cover the entire territory. Therefore, I propose, conditionally speaking, to retake Horlivka or Novoazovskiy district,” he said in an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda.

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