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Throughout 2015, Wolfgang Gerke and Andrej Hunko, the two members of the German Bundestag, raised money for the children of Donbass and then sent the funds to medical institutions in Gorlovka, Lugansk and Donetsk, Hunko told RIA Novosti in an interview." Hunko said, adding that already by February 2015 the two German MPs managed to raise over 30,000 euros ($32,500), which they immediately sent to Donbass.Hunko said that all the funds raised were used to buy medicine and medical equipment for children's hospitals in Donbass.In November, the German MPs met with the administration of hospitals to which they send the money."They [doctors and hospital administration] said with our support, they were able to fully provide hospitals with medicine over the next three months," Hunko said.When parts of the funds were sent to Donbass in November, theUkraine's southeast has been severely affected by Kiev's special military operation, launched in Donetsk and Lugansk regions in April 2014. The operation was a response to local residents' refusal to recognize the new coup-installed government in the country.