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Ukrainian enterprises seized by Russia in Donbas must be returned, Zelensky said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine could soon lift the economic blockade off the occupied Donbas.
That's in case Russia returns to Ukraine the enterprises "nationalized" in Donbas, Zelensky said during a joint press conference with President of the European Council Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Kyiv Monday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
"People don't play political games, they live in Ukraine. They cannot do anything if their parents are in such a difficult situation where they don't want to move to Ukraine, I mean, to the territory that we control," he said.
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"The issue with the economic blockade, I don’t want anyone to somehow misunderstand me here, you know that all this is possible," said Zelensky. "We are talking about this in Minsk."
"Everything is possible, everything can be lifted in the near future, but please return to us our illegally 'nationalized' enterprises located in the temporarily occupied territories," the president said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on June 5, Russian media quoted OSCE Special Representative Martin Sajdik as saying that the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbas settlement at its next meeting, at the suggestion of Leonid Kuchma, will consider lifting the Donbas economic blockade.