04/05/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The leader of “Right Sector” party Yarosh became an adviser to the Chief of General Staff

The Leader of "Right Sector" Yarosh and the Chief of General Staff Muzhenko

04/05/2015 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social Networks

• The leader of “Right Sector” party Yarosh became an adviser to the Chief of General Staff.
• Poroshenko scared of armed Ukrainians.
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk boasted residues on Treasury account.
• The growth of utility tariffs.
• The President is trying to guide the work of the Constitutional Commission.
• Ukrainian Mariya Muzychuk became women’s world chess champion.
• Catholics celebrate Easter.
• Large Hadron Collider is working again.

Key Events in Ukraine

• The leader of the "Right Sector" Yarosh agreed to become Advisor to the Chief of the General Staff.
• President Poroshenko is going to open the meeting of the Constitutional Commission on Monday.
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk is ready to respond to allegations of government corruption at the session of the Verkhovna Rada. He said that the sum in the single treasury account is the highest for the past 10 years. Yatsenyuk confident that the government will have enough money to pay allowances to compensate for an increase in utility tariffs, even for 15 million families.

Ukraine at War

• Two soldiers were killed and  one wounded as a result of landmine explosion near Shirokine. Militants shot military truck with anti-tank missile and killed four soldiers in Stanitsa Luganska. Fire from the heavy artillery on Avdiivka and Opytnoe resumed at night from Donetsk.
• Foreign observers and heads of ATO considered assault of pro-Russian forces in the Donbass in the near future inevitable. Russia continues transfer mercenaries, military equipment, ammunition and fuel to the occupied territory of Donbass, conducting a reconnaissance in different areas of the front line. Heavy military equipment is masked in close proximity to the front line. OSCE observers were denied access to places where it based.

Ukraine and the World

• Yemeni authorities have accused Russia of supplying heavy weapons to the "rebels."

The Trends

• Increasing utility tariffs together with increasing of the tax burden on business will inevitably lead to a cooling of the economy, the growth of debt on utility bills and put people on the brink of survival. Experts predict growth of protest moods in society in the coming months.
• Attempts by President Poroshenko to prohibit citizens from owning arms indicate fear of losing his position as a result of people's armed uprising. Free sale of weapons to the population is a characteristic feature of democratic countries. Totalitarian regimes prohibit legal sale in arms.
• Russia's participation can be seen in almost all financing of terrorist organizations. Putin is trying to keep the high oil prices, fueling armed conflicts around the world, knowing that the fall in prices could lead to the collapse of his regime, like the collapse of the USSR.