September 24, 2015

09/23/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Ukraine announced a technical default in connection with the agreed restructuring of the public debt

Ukraine announced a technical default in connection with the agreed restructuring of the public debt
Ukraine announced a technical default in connection with the agreed restructuring of the public debt

09.23.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

  • Ukraine announced a technical default in connection with the agreed restructuring of the public debt.
  • In Kharkiv, unknown persons in balaclavas  stormed the house of deputy from the Opposition Blok Dobkin and building of the City Council .
  • Battalion commander, suspected of bribes for smuggling in the occupied territory, was released on bail.
  • The city council decided to return Artemovsk the historical name of Bakhmut.

Key Events in Ukraine

  • Ukraine suspended the debt servicing of the old state obligation and began the agreed with the IMF restructuring process, which actually means a technical default. The Ministry of Finance, starting from this week, launches an exchange of restructured bonds for new ones. A meeting of bond holders is scheduled for October 14 in London.
  • The State Property Fund plans to accelerate the privatization of energy companies and sell in October-November big shares of energy-generating companies, and in December - a controlling stake of the Odessa port plant and JSC "Sumykhimprom."
  • Acting mayor of Lviv, the leader of Samopomich Association, Sadovyi was nominated for the post of the city mayor again.
  • Private Deposit Guarantee Fund offered the National Bank to begin the liquidation of Delta-Bank, included in the list of the largest financial institutions in Ukraine.
  • The official hryvnia exchange rate slightly increased again : 21,58 ₴ / $ (-0,16 UAH), 24,06 ₴ / € (-0,19 UAH), 3,27 ₴ / 10 ₽ (-0,02 UAH).

Ukraine at War

  • Relative truce, occasionally interrupted by the provocative shellings of the militants, continues in the Donbass.
  • In Donetsk arrived first shipment of humanitarian aid from the International Red Cross. Earlier, the militants blocked the receipt of such assistance.
  • All the trucks, detained by the activists at the administrative border with the Crimea, returned to the Ukraine’s mainland.
  • The leader of the DPR  militants  Zakharchenko said that "republic" will pull out of the peace process and capture the Donbass territory controlled by Ukraine, if the country continues its rapprochement with NATO.
  • Another Putin's "convoy" departed to the occupied the Donbass.
  • Ukraine proposed to introduce into the Joint Center for Coordination and Control of the Ceasefire in the Donbass the representatives of Germany and France.

Ukraine and the World

  • Foreign Minister Klimkin said that visa-free regime with the EU could already be introduced next year, if the European Commission takes a positive decision before 15 December - after the voting in the Parliament for 12 bills agreed.
  • The European Investment Bank approved the allocation for Ukraine of € 460 million for the purchase of natural gas in winter.
  • The US House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for Russia to immediately release Ukrainian deputy Savchenko, captured by militants in the Luhansk region, against who Russian court conducts a trial .
  • Egypt is to buy "Mistral" class helicopter carriers , which were not delivered to Russia because of the sanctions imposed in response to the aggression in Ukraine.
  • Head of the European Council Tusk said that the conflicts in Syria and Iraq will not finish soon, and the EU should be ready for millions of refugees. The problem of migrants could become an end of the Schengen Agreement, if the EU does not solve the problem, and does not block the external border.
  • Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that the pseudo elections in the Donbass are not violating the Minsk Agreement.

The Trends


  • Online petition on the free possession of weapon, which got 25 thousand votes on the website of the President, was not considered by his Administration in time.

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