First deputy head of the Anti-terrorist center of Security Service of Ukraine Valsily Hritsak has published the congratulation with New Year and Christmas, addressed to defenders of Ukraine on the Facebook page of ATO center.

‘Dear fighting comrades! We frankly congratulate you with New Year 2017 and Christmas. The feeling of unity with our families, proud for the fact that only we can protect them from the enemies at these days. Militarists, the participants of ATO are strong defenders of Ukraine’, tells the report.

‘Outgoing year has written in the combat chronicle of Ukrainian troop new heroic examples of selfless service to the Motherland in the reflection of the conditions of the armed aggression of Russia in the east of our country. Fighting with cunning, unscrupulous enemy personnel of military units (subdivisions) that are involved in the antiterrorist operation showed high morale, professional skill and great willingness to sacrifice for the sake of peace and tranquility in the troubled land of Donbass’ tells the text.

‘Let 2017 will be generous for new achievements and accomplishments and also will become the year of the recovery of territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state. On the occasion of the holiday, I wish you and your families good health, endurance, faith, and love, hope and optimism, inspiration and inexhaustible vitality’, the greeting told.