Wednesday results in the occupied territories of Donbass. The highlights

"Leader of the DPR" Alexander Zakharchenko: "The primary task is to issue passports to the residents of the DPR. It may be unpleasant news for somebody, but I guarantee that the second stage will be issuing them to residents of Mariupol, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk and so on".

"Leader of the DPR" Alexander Zakharchenko: "The committee that was created in the Crimea is a public initiative. Our public movement "Donetsk Republic" together with the Crimea created it to be able to exist together with Russia. Integration will be multi-level, not only economic, all aspects of our life are taken into account".

"Representative of the People's Militia of the LPR” Andrei Marochko: "We will request the leadership of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to conduct a trial on the fact of a biased assessment by the mission's staff of the real situation in the places of diversion of weapons and military equipment".

"Leader of the DPR" Alexander Zakharchenko: "You know, there are exact data, but they will be different from Kyiv’s, since we do not prohibit our pensioners from receiving a pension in Ukraine and in the DPR. Therefore, to date, the debt of the Ukrainian authorities to our pensioners is more than USD 1.1 billion".

Media: "After transferring under the jurisdiction of the DPR, the Donetsk electro technical factory reconvenes next week. This was stated by Acting Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic Alexei Granovsky. "I challenge your director to deal with all personnel issues until Monday. On March 27, the plant starts to work", - Granovsky told".

Media: "The delegation of the DPR trade union discussed the cooperation between the organizations at a meeting of the Moscow Federation of Trade Unions. A preliminary agreement regarding the trip of a group of children to the Kremlin Christmas tree in 2018 was reached, as well as areas for joint activities between the trade unions of the DPR and Moscow were identified".

Media: "Veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in the territory under Kyiv's control will be able to visit the Victory Parade on May 9 in Donetsk. They will be assisted in transportation. This was stated by the head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko. "I gladly invite all veterans to celebrate this holy date. I will instruct the Minister of Transport to provide buses at the checkpoints for those who will come to us for the holiday. We are looking forward to it", - Zakharchenko said".

Media: "On March 23, the representatives of educational institutions from Voronezh and Bryansk will come to Donetsk to establish friendly and business ties".

Media: "The LPR receives 90% of water from underground sources. This was reported by the head of the state enterprise Luhanskvoda Dmitry Bidlyuchenko".

“Minister of Education and Science of the LPR” Valentina Tkachenko: "Since a number of Ukrainian enterprises operating in the territory of the DPR and LPR have been transferred to our jurisdiction, a person who has a diploma issued in the LPR gets a legal right to work for these enterprises with this document".

Media: "The survey conducted in all cities of the LPR showed that the educational institutions support the introduction of a school uniform for students. This was reported by the Minister of Education and Science of the LPR Valentina Tkachenko ".