08/02/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - President Poroshenko awarded paratroopers in Slovyansk

President Poroshenko awarded paratroopers in Slovyansk

08.02.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• President Poroshenko awarded paratroopers in Slovyansk.
• Preparations  for the Independence Day parade are well under way.
• Money of the IMF tranche will be used to replenish the NBU reserves.
• A military helicopter crashed during the air show in Russia.

Key Events In Ukraine

• On the Day of Airmobile Forces and Military Air Forces, President Poroshenko awarded the paratroopers in Slavyansk .
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk said that the IMF money will be used to replenish the National Bank reserves up to $ 12 billion.
• Oil suppies  to the Kremenchuzhsky oil refinery were unblocked.

Ukraine at War

• Military operations do not stop in the Donbass, despite the statements of the Ukrainian authorities about the possibility of achieving the ceasefire . After several days of inactivity, the fighting resumed in the area of ​​Mariupol, the militants are continuously shelling and attacking the position of the Ukrainian army in the surroundings of Donetsk. Stanitsa Luhanska and Zolote are also under constant shellings. During the previous day, according to the official reports, 8 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded, since morning 6 soldiers were wounded in Maryinka.
• А meeting of the local residents who were protesting against the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Shyrokino took place In Mariupol. Poroshenko promised that the army will remain on the strategic heights near Shyrokino.

Ukraine and the World

• International Congress of the Crimean Tatars appealed to the world community to recognize Russia's policy towards the indigenous people of the Crimea a genocide. Turkish President Erdogan, in his speech at the Congress, said that his country would never recognize the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia.

The Trends

• In Kiev, on the "Antonov" aviation concern field, was held a rehearsal of the military parade dedicated to the Day of Independence. The public has a very ambivalent attitude towards such parade in the conditions, when every day in the East of Ukraine soldiers and civilians are being killed in an undeclared war, and the army does not conduct active operations to free the territory of the country.