The mayor of the Kiev-controlled city of Dobropolye in Donbass refused to return Ukrainian flags to the streets, calling them “torn rags.” Deputy Dmitry Lubinets stated this from the rostrum of parliament.
According to him, the mayor also refused to hang billboards “Dobropillie is Ukraine,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“In 14, it all started with the fact that Ukrainian flags disappeared from our cities in the Donetsk region. Now it’s deja vu for us - the year 2017, three years have passed, three years of war, but we have a repeat of the 14th year again.
On March 22, a session of the city council was held in the city of Dobropolye, where at the end of the meeting, local deputy Nikolai Stripachenko raised a question that worries local residents - where did the state flags go from the streets of the city?
You know, I was surprised by the response of Mayor Andrei Aksenov, a man who has repeatedly expressed his positions and sympathies with the DPR, LPR and the Russian Federation. He replied that he “doesn’t need these torn rags to float in Dobropolye.”
Think about it, there has been a war for three years, and we have one of the mayors of the Donetsk region openly, at a session, declares that the Ukrainian flag is a torn rag, that he will not return either Ukrainian symbols or “Dobropillie is Ukraine” signs to their places.” , - Lubinets laments.