Monday, April 27, 2015
6:41 AM PDT
Poroshenko signs law
to increase number of border patrol guards
"President of Ukraine signed the law on amendments to Article
6 of the law of Ukraine
on State Border Guard Service of Ukraine which increases the maximum number of
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine personnel by three thousand soldiers - up
to 53,000 border patrol guards," the statement said.
The law adopted by
the Verkhovna Rada on April 9 sets conditions for a more successful implementation
of the tasks by State Border Service in the ATO zone and along the
administrative border with temporarily occupied territories.
Monday, April 27, 2015
6:19 AM PDT
Savchenko to be sent
to city hospital
(UNIAN) --- Ukrainian pilot, MP and
member of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE Nadia Savchenko, who was abducted
from Ukraine and is now detained in a Moscow jail, will be sent to Moscow’s
20th city hospital on Tuesday, Mark Feygin, her lawyer, wrote on Twitter on
Monday.
"I have just
come from Nadia. Tomorrow she will be sent to Moscow ’s 20th city hospital," Feygin
tweeted.
As UNIAN reported
earlier, Savchenko was abducted by Russian-backed militants in the Donbas in
the summer of 2014, and then taken to Russia , where she was charged with
being involved in the death of Russian journalists. She was also charged with
illegally crossing into Russia .
On October 26,
during the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine , Savchenko was elected as
an MP from the Batkivshyna Party. The Verkhovna Rada made Savchenko a member of
the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe.
The Rada has called
on international organizations and inter-parliamentary assemblies to make
efforts to free Savchenko.
Savchenko went on
hunger strike on December 15 in protest at being denied medicines she required.
She is now demanding that she be released from jail and placed in another form
of detention pending her trial. In early March, her state of health
deteriorated.
On April 24 the
Russian Investigative Committee brought final charges against Savchenko.
In addition to the
charges of being involved in the murder of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine last
June, Savchenko was accused of illegally crossing the Russian border.
According to Russia ’s
Federal Penitentiary Service, Savchenko has tightened her hunger strike.
"For the last
three days Nadia Savchenko has refused to eat. Therefore, a medical
consultation will be held today," said Kristina Belousova, a representative
of the service.
As reported
earlier, Chairman of the Russian Human Rights Council Mikhail Fedotov told
reporters that Savchenko had resumed her hunger strike and could be sent to
hospital due to her deteriorating health: Savchenko has lost more than eight
kilos in weight in the last week.
Monday, April 27, 2015
6:07 AM PDT
One Ukrainian soldier
killed and three wounded yesterday - ATO speaker
(Censor.NET) --- One soldier was killed
and three more were wounded in the ATO area April 26.
ATO press secretary
Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a traditional briefing on Monday, Censor.NET
reports citing Ukrainski Novyny.
"One Ukrainian
serviceman was killed and three other our fellow soldiers were wounded in
battles during the past 24 hours," he said.
Monday, April 27, 2015
6:07 AM PDT
Ukraine holds large
scale military exercises in southern region of Mykolaiv
(UNIAN) --- Ukraine
has been conducting a range of military exercises in the southern region of
Mykolaiv, some involving attack helicopters, officials in Kiev say.
Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko, who observed the drills, said that “the Ukrainian Armed
Forces will not be the ones who start an offensive” and stressed that the OSCE
mission had confirmed Ukraine ’s
strict implementation of Minsk
ceasefire agreements, Ukraine Today reports.
Since the signing
of a ceasefire deal in February, numerous violations of the ceasefire by
Russia-backed militants have been reported. Earlier, a BBC journalist
personally witnessed the shelling of Ukrainian positions with heavy weapons
near the strategic port city of Mariupol .
Meanwhile, Russia has been
holding aggressive military drills in close proximity to the Ukrainian border.
Monday, April 27, 2015
5:55 AM PDT
(UNIAN) --- There were 46 attacks on
Ukrainian positions in the Donbas in the last 24 hours, with some of them
involving heavy artillery that militants should have withdrawn under the Minsk agreements,
government forces said on Sunday.
While Russia has
been continuously denying military involvement in the Donbas conflict and its
support of militants, European leaders are to continue enforcing sanctions
against Russia over its obvious role in the escalation in Ukraine’s east until
the truce is fully implemented, Ukraine Today reports.
International
efforts to achieve peace in the region are being made. A video conference is to
be held on April 29th between representatives of Russia ,
Ukraine
and the OSCE on the one side and representatives from the so-called Luhansk and
Donetsk Peoples' Republics on the other. Discussion of all points of the Minsk peace deal is on
the agenda.
Monday, April 27, 2015
3:45 AM PDT
Russian/rebel troops
ready to attack – Yury Lutsenko says
(Zik) --- The probability of the Donbas war escalation is high, Petro Poroshenko Block
faction leader warned, speaking late Apr. 26 on the Inter TV, Interfax-Ukrayina
reports.
“There is an 80%
probability that the war will be escalated,” Lutsenko warned.
The Russian/rebel
troops in Donbas have been put on the highest
level of combat readiness so far, Lutsenko said.
The number of
Russian troops across the border has reached it maximum – about 55,000.
According to intelligence, the Donbas rebels
are preparing to attack.
Monday, April 27, 2015
3:05 AM PDT
Only half of
protesters in Kiev
(Zik) --- Only half of those who had
protested last week in Kiev
demanding increased payments to miners and dismissal of the coal minister were
miners, the rest were hired goons. Some of them have been detained and will be
prosecuted, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on national TV Apr. 27.
“Half of the
protesters [about 1,000] were miners. The other half was goons hired by
protests organizers. They violated the public order and resisted the police,
the minister said.
The 3-day protests
had been held near the presidential administration, government building and
legislature. Protesters blocked Kiev
streets several times.
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