05/14/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Assistant Secretary of State Nuland will continue talks about Ukraine in Moscow

Assistant Secretary of State Nuland

05.16.2015 Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social networks

• Assistant Secretary of State Nuland will continue talks about Ukraine in Moscow.
• Speaker Groisman advocates for the full transparency of the utility tariffs.
• Problems at the Zaporozhye nuclear power station were temporary.
• Russian rocket "Proton-M" exploded.

Key Events of Ukraine

• President Poroshenko held an expanded meeting on the settlement of the situation in the Donbass with representatives of government, security agencies and Minsk process working sub-groups. The issues of implementation of the Minsk Agreements by Russia, ceasefire, restoration of the control over the state border, exchange of prisoners, as well as the possibility of holding the local elections and delivery of the humanitarian aid to the territory controlled by the rebels were considered.

Ukraine at War

• Shellings  of the populated areas and Ukrainian army positions along the demarcation line continue. In Luhansk region affected were Krymske, Zolote, Schastya and Stanitsa Luhanska. There were fights in Shyrokine and the surroundings of Donetsk. According to official reports, two soldiers and one civilian were wounded. Near Yasynuvata a tractorist tripped a mine.
• The General Headquarters reported on 95% readyness of the first line of fortifications in the Donbass.

Ukraine and the World

• Assistant Secretary of State Nuland announced about the increase of US involvement in the Minsk agreements fulfillment and the full support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine, including Crimea.
• Former Egyptian President Morsi, along with several activists of the "Muslim Brotherhood" movement, was sentenced to death.
• Turkish Air Forces shot down a Syrian military helicopter which intruded into the country.

The Trends

• Statements of the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Groisman and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk about the necessity of transparent formation and auditing of the utility tariffs reflect the growing understanding by the authorities of the probability of the major social upheavals that could seriously harm the defensive capacity and economic system of Ukraine.