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We have gathered here, in fact, for a festive event, but I know – just now I was listening to the country’s top military leadership – that right at this moment, there is a battle going on on our historical borders for our people, it is being led by the same courageous fighters who are now standing next to us here. They fight heroically, courageously, bravely. We are proud of them. We are proud, so three cheers in their honor!