August 23, 2015

08/22/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - President Poroshenko said that the sixth wave of mobilization will not be the last one

President Poroshenko said that the sixth wave of mobilization will not be the last one
Poroshenko said that the sixth wave of mobilization will not be the last one

08.22.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

  • President Poroshenko said that the sixth wave of mobilization will not be the last one.
  • Journalist Butusov believes that the results of the Ilovaisk tragedy assessment clearly establish the responsibility of the officials.

Key Evenst in Ukraine

  • President Poroshenko during the ceremony of handover of the military equipment in Kharkov region, said that the sixth wave of partial mobilization wasn’t the last one, as the threat of war will last for decades, and new generations of Ukrainians need military experience.
  • According to Poroshenko, the elections should be held in the Donbass areas which are located at a distance of the artillery shot from the fighting line.

Ukraine at War

  • The situation in the Donbass remains tense, the shellings in the Donetsk and Mariupol directions are still intense. The militants are using heavy artillery and mobile single-shot missile launchers "Grad-P". There were skirmishes in Stanitsa Luhanska and Zolote. During the day, according to the official figures, eight Ukrainian soldiers were wounded.
  • Head of the Donetsk regional military-civilian administration Zhebrivskyi announced that the control checkpoint Zaitseve near Artemivsk was modernized to ensure greater traffic. It will become operational on August 23.

Ukraine and the World

  • The EU officials called the pardon, granted by President Lukashenko to six political prisoners, and former opposition candidate for President Statkevich among them, a "long-awaited step forward" and announced the possibility of progress in relations with Belarus.
  • Russia successfully tested a ballistic missile "Topol-M", capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for 10 thousand km.

The Trends


  • According to the World Bank, during the years of Ukraine's independence the real GDP decreased by 35%. This is the worst result in the world - much worse than in African countries, Moldova and Georgia.
  • Deutsche Welle news agency reported that the main topics of talks in Berlin between the leaders of Germany, France and Ukraine will be conducting of reforms in Ukraine and fighting against corruption, and not the creation of a unified coalition against Putin.
  • A former member of the Party of Regions Olyinyk, one of the parliamentary groups leaders in the Verkhovna Rada and co-author of the "dictatorial laws" of Yanukovych, predicts a wave of autumn protests provoked by high tariffs. The opposition blok will support them.

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