Deputy Minister on occupied territories Georgiy Tuka said that he conceded resumption of trade with the occupied territories in Donbass. He said that in his interview to Gromadske radіo, - reports LigaBusinessInform.
According to Tuka, there are two points of view - "to fence off with barbed wire" and remove all restrictions. I will "seek the truth" at the meeting on Thursday, May 5th, - said the deputy minister.
"This is one of the stages of the strategic plan (for de-occupation - Ed.) which I mentioned. Yesterday I said that it did not exist. Today I saw it myself," – said Tuka.
Earlier, head of Donetsk Regional Military Civilian Administration Pavel Zhebrivskyi said that smuggling in Donetsk region is protected by security forces.