April 08, 2015

04/07/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Ukraine will consider taking part in a military parade in Moscow on May 9 as support of the aggressor

Ukraine will consider taking part in a military parade in Moscow on May 9 as support of the aggressor
А military parade in Moscow

04/07/2014 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the Media and Social Networks

  • President, the head of his administration and the prime minister submitted their tax returns.
  • Fire at Russian submarine "Eagle".
  • Pro-presidential candidate has not passed the selection for the position of head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
  • Car accident on the Maidan involving the son of president Poroshenko.
  • Deputies leaving the faction of Poroshenko in the Verkhovna Rada.
  • Inflation in March rose sharply.
  • Ukraine will consider taking part in a military parade in Moscow on May 9 as support of the aggressor.
  • Picketing the Verkhovna Rada by the "Freedom" party .

Key Events in Ukraine

  • Competition Commission selected two candidates for the position of head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Ukrainian delegation will not take part in a military parade on May 9 in Moscow due to Russian aggression in Ukraine, participation of foreign delegations at the event will be seen as support for the aggressor.
  • Four deputies of the Verkhovna Rada left the presidential faction "Block Poroshenko."
  • Changes to the law on the status of war veterans and guarantees of their social protection - fighters of volunteer battalions can obtain the status of combatants if their units were included in the Ukrainian army, the Interior Ministry and other official armed forces.
  • The Verkhovna Rada has expanded the powers of the Accounting Chamber, giving it the right to control not only the expenses, but also the flow of funds to the budget.
  • The law for exemption of religious organizations from real estate tax was considered in the first reading. Churches may be allowed to establish schools and kindergartens.
  • President Poroshenko held a meeting of the Military Cabinet of the National Security Council on the coordination of the activities of law enforcement agencies with the monitoring mission of the OSCE.
  • General Prosecutor's Office asked the court to recognize the illegal privatization of the three largest energy companies - "Dniproenergo", "Zakarpatoblenergo" and "Donbassenergo" due to violation of the conditions of competition for the purpose of sale to certain participants in advance.
  • Cabinet granted the right to control energy on the territory of the antiterrorist operation.
  • Director of NTU presented the concept of public broadcasting, which will be represented by two television and three radio channels on the basis of reorganized state broadcasting companies.
  • Price of postal services in Ukraine will rise by 20% due to rising costs.
  • The inflation rate in Ukraine has increased dramatically, reaching more than 10% in March compared with February. At the end of the year inflation could reach almost 45%.
  • The volume of car production in Ukraine has fallen by 92% in March 2015 compared to March 2014 . Only 430 vehicles were produced.
  • Amount of foreign investment in the agricultural sector decreased by $ 245 million, accounting for almost a third of its volume.
  • The official hryvnia exchange rate continues to decline gradually, despite the reported increase in foreign exchange reserves to $10 billion: 23.50 UAH/USD (+0.05 UAH), 25.50 UAH/EUR (+0,11 UAH) 4.25 UAH/10 RUR (+0.10 UAH).

Ukraine at War

  • The situation in the conflict zone in the Donbass does not indicate a ceasefire by pro-Russian militants. They continue attacks on settlements in the area of ​​Donetsk airport and on the highway "Bahmutka", firing take place along the front line. At least two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded. According to experts, this indicates an attempt to try the defense of Ukrainian troops to prepare for attack.
  • Russia continues to move dozens of armored vehicles, trucks with fighters and fuel tankers through uncontrollable Ukraine state border.
  • According to the UN, the number of refugees who fled Ukraine because of military operations in the Donbass exceeds 700 thousand people, most of them in Russia. More than 1.2 million people officially registered by Ukrainian authorities as temporary migrants. International donors are not in a hurry to allocate funds to provide emergency assistance to them.
  • Militants do not allow the observers of the OSCE mission in the areas of concentration of their forces in a combat zone as well as to bases of heavy equipment and checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border, explaining the refusal by the absence of command. Militants require movement of observers on the territory they control only with their escort.
  • SBU defused another terrorist group in Odessa which was preparing attacks. The servers ensuring the functioning of the separatist sites were seized from provider of domain names nic.ua. The railway track was blown up In the Kharkiv region.

Ukraine and the World


  • The first deputy head of the IMF Lipton said at a conference on Ukraine that the fund will not leave her in the lurch, and stressed that the international community will give full support to Ukraine if it will move along the path of reform.
  • Japan will not supply weapons to Ukraine because its legislation prohibits the transfer of arms to the countries where war take place.

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