11/11/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Leader of the "Right Sector" Yarosh resigned

Leader of the "Right Sector" Yarosh resigned

11.11.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• Leader of the Right Sector Yarosh resigned.
• SU-25 Frogfoot aicraft fell In Zaporizhya region during a training flight.
• Fitch has downgraded Kyiv rating to the default level.
• Incumbent Kyiv Mayor Klitschko refused to debate with the mayoral candidate Bereza.

Key Events In Ukraine

• NSDC recommends to allocate not less than 5% of the 2016 state budget for defence purposes.
• The Cabinet proposed to abolish the employment record cards. The Minister of Economic Development Abromavicius called this abolition an “international practice.” He said that the employee register has existed in Ukraine since 2004.
• Head of the Donetsk regional military-civilian administration Zhebrivskyi claimed that in Mariupol and Krasnoarmiysk  "some political forces" are buying votes again.
• The Government plans to reform the State Statistics Service, reducing its staff by 20% and subordinating it to the Cabinet of Ministers.
• Head of Naftogaz Kobolev announced the start of negotiations with the IMF on reducing residential gas tariffs in case of lower prices for imported natural gas.
• Ukraine continues to import electricity from Russia.
• Deputy Chairman of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction Kononenko believes coal supplies from the occupied territory to be the lesser of two evils.
• The Government plans to announce public holidays on January 1-3 and 7-10.
• Finance Minister Yaresko announced that the process of restructuring government debt has been completed. New bonds  will be issued on the outstanding debt. As a result of the negotiations, the amount of debt was reduced by $3 billion, and the repayment of bonds worth another $8.5 billion has been postponed till after 2018.
• National Bank left the official hryvnia exchange rate unchanged: 23.75 ₴/$, 24.39 ₴/€, 3.52 ₴/10 ₽ (-0.01 UAH).

Kyiv

• Fitch lowered Kyiv credit rating to the default D level due to delay in payment of $250 million on Eurobonds. According to experts, the next payment in the amount of $300 million will also be skipped. Fitch considers the moratorium on payments as insolvency.  On October 8, Kyiv City Council approved the convsersion of capital’s bonds into state debt. However, the negotiations on debt restructuring failed.

Ukraine at War

• OSCE observers have recorded numerous cases of fire opened from small arms and mortars near Donetsk. Intelligence reports on the increased activity of the occupants’ troops, the relocation of their heavy weaponry and the deployment of MRLS close to the demarcation line. According to official reports, at least one serviceman as killed and five wounded in the combat zone.
  The troops are allowed to open fire in response to the militants’ provocations.
• Su-25 Frogfoot aircraft fell in Zaporizhya region during a training flight. The military command said that the pilot died trying to take the aircraft away from residential areas.

Ukraine and the World

• OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Kanerva said that Russia will keep sending weapons and soldiers to Ukraine for as long as Ukraine does not control its state border.
• Russian President Putin said that the Rusiian defense complex was given the task to develop strike weapons capable of breaking through any anti-missile systems.

Trends

• Observers beleive the resignation of the Right Sector leader Yarosh to be the consequence of conflict within the organization because over the further development of the nationalist movement. Commanders of the Volunteer Corps at the front line said they would continue the struggle for the liberation of Ukraine from the invaders. However, there is a possibility of collapse of the national liberation movement, which is one of the major aims of RF President Putin who demanded from President Poroshenko during the Minsk talks that the volunteer units be disbanded.
• General Prosecutor's Office invited the Minister of Justice Petrenko for questioning on the case of obstructing the work of the Constitutional Court during the consideration of the lustration law. The minister in response stated that there are no results of the investigation into the usurpation of power by former President Yanukovych with the help of the judges of the Constitutional Court.
• A gunboat produced  by Lenіnska Kuznya plant owned by President Poroshenko was launched from slipways in Kyiv. The President is not planning to sell any of its assets, despite the promises made before the presidential elections.