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“Together we have achieved a lot, but we are still only halfway down the road. I am convinced that if you continue to be as determined, as courageous and as consistent as you were back then in Independence Square (Maidan), as you were during the battle for Ukraine's integrity, if you can withstand the burden of reforms and not give up, then you will reach your dreams and goals,” Donald Tusk said.

“Today I can see clearly that you will not be defeated by an external enemy,” he went on to say. “You are too strong. You can only be defeated by yourselves.”

Therefore, Tusk believes Ukraine needs to keep its unity “at any cost” and “avoid internal conflicts like the plague.”

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