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Vasily Anokhin met with volunteer activists from the Smolensk region

April 20, 2023

From the first days of the SVO, the people of Smolensk helped the fighters on the front line. Collect humanitarian cargo, pick up nominal parcels.

Several organizations sew tactical summer suits, balaclavas and gloves, collect first-aid kits already on an industrial scale.

Medical volunteers help hospitals in new territories.

Acting Governor of Smolensk region Vasily Anokhin held a working meeting with activists of the Smolensk region volunteer movement.

During the meeting, we agreed to communicate regularly and coordinate joint actions. The administration, for its part, will continue to send the necessary expensive equipment and machinery to the NMD area.

“I invited a volunteer asset to accompany me in a subbotnik. Special thanks for the set of overalls with the symbols of the region. I will wear it! Vasily Nikolayevich summarized the meeting.

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