I.Herashchenko: Ukraine’s east on-upgrade
23 August 2017, 19:45
I.Herashchenko: Restoration of infrastructure facilities in the east of Ukraine is indeed a crushing answer to the Russian aggressor
Repairs of roads, building of bridges, and launching of a radio-television broadcasting station in Eastern Ukraine seem to be the symbolically fitting rebuff to the Russian tanks and shellings. Neither word of Ukraine nor its essence may ever be swept off by Russian arms. That was in the focus of the I. Herashchenko’s uncompromising rhetoric after recent visiting the east of Ukraine.
The Presidential envoy for peaceful settlement of the Donetsk-Luhansk clash Iryna Herashchenko together with other core parliamentary officials made a working tour to Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts; the tour, by the way, was headed by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
The delegation took part in an opening ceremony of launching a bridge over Sivers'kyi Donets' River in the City of Izium down the “Kharkiv-Chuhuiv-Izium-Slov'ians'k” freeway. The delegates then also inspected the progress in renewal of the M-03 motorway “Kyiv-Kharkiv-Dovzhans'kyi” built in 1951, with its year of 2000 last repaired. Importantly, it was mentioned at the ceremony that the recovery of the above facilities had been made feasible through a pilot project providing for redirection of the customs revenue surplus as well as due to a decentralization programme. It was said that the project had been successfully piloted in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, and other oblasts of Ukraine as well – giving thus a potent spur to the whole renovation of Ukrainian roads.
While in Luhansk oblast, the distinguished capital officials took part in launching the radio-television broadcasting station capable of covering the temporarily occupied territories inclusively with a Ukrainian media product.
According to Iryna Herashchenko, the 134-metre tower would allow it to radially transmit the signal throughout a distance up to 60 kilometres, which may let it translate twelve Ukrainian TV-channels and four FM-stations over the front-line villages and the temporarily occupied territories. “This means the occupants would not feel at ease in slandering and driving the people demented,” she stated, adding the President gave his word to keep on restoring retransmitting stations in Donbas so as to “each and every house is reached with a word of Ukraine”.
The delegation did solemnly also co-open the Luhansk Oblast Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre. It was indicated at the ceremony that the theatre, which had been founded in 1941 with the aim of uplifting the soldiers combatting against the brown-shirts, should help nowadays defend Ukraine in the hybrid war against Russia. “The Luhansk theatre’s start-over in Sievierodonets'k is a pivotal event of the year both for Sievierodonets'k and Luhansk oblast, as well as for the whole Ukraine, as it delivers the most symbolic response to Russian tanks and shellings – the Russian arms will never sweep down the Ukrainian word and Ukraine itself,” stressed Iryna Herashchenko.
An off-schedule presidential trip to Schastia town was also reported by the First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The trip envisioned a meeting with the OSCE SMM’s officers who were in charge of monitoring the security situation around Stanytsia Luhans'ka. It was also remarked that three days ago there had been established the first day-night look-out post. “It is exactly around-the-clock regime of the mission’s activity that Ukraine has insisted upon,” underscored I. Herashchenko.