29/03/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Prime-minister Yatseniuk demonstrates unity with the president

Prime-minister Yatseniuk and president Poroshenko

03/29/2015 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the Media and Social Networks

• Prime-minister Yatseniuk demonstrates unity with the president.
• Daylight saving time for Ukraine and the occupied territories.
• Russia pumps Donbass with arms and mercenaries.
• Terrorist attacks against volunteers in Odessa.
• Last March snow.
• Putin defiantly recognize Palestine with its capital in East Jerusalem.
• President's wife photos in the train was promoted by internet bots in social networks.

Key Events of Ukraine

• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promises to appoint a "high-quality foreign management" in a large companies "Ukrnafta" and "Ukrtransnafta" and states that the heads of all state-owned enterprises will be appointed through open competition.
• General Prosecutor Shokin said that there is no untouchables for him, including the president and prime minister if they will commit crimes under the Criminal Code.

Ukraine at War

• Weather hampers active fighting by militants, but they continue to keep the positions of Ukrainian troops along the whole line of the fighting under fire. The shelling killed officer in the Granitne. OSCE observers recorded mortar fire from the Ukrainian side on militant positions in Shirokine, but "did not notice" provocative shelling by militants.
• Interior Minister Avakov announced the start of joint military exercises of the National Guard and American paratroopers from the April 20.

Ukraine and the World

• Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia stated that Russia is a party to the Syrian tragedy, but behaves as if it has no effect on the conflict.
• British Armed Forces in response to constant provocations by the Russian Air Force conducted a large-scale exercises for the protection against the Russian threat.
• Statements of German politicians, in particular Foreign Minister Steinmeier and former Chancellor Schroeder suggest trying to freeze the conflict in Donbass as it was done in the South Ossetia.

The Trends

• West, taking into account the oligarchic war in Ukraine, urges the Ukrainian authorities to a more open management of public companies.
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk wants to seize the initiative in the investigation of corruption by creating a structure parallel to the Anti-Corruption Bureau. He announced that the government has set a very high salaries - up to 30 thousand Hryvnia for the investigators who will carry the major corruption cases,.
• Statements of the leaders of terrorist "republics" of Donbass indicate intentions to continue the offensive.