04/12/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Orthodox and Greek Catholics celebrate Easter

Greek Catholics and Orthodox celebrate Eastor

04/12/2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from  the Media and Social Networks

• Orthodox and Greek Catholics celebrate Easter.
• Fierce fighting in the region of Donetsk airport and Shirokine.
• Hillary Clinton runs for president.
• Foreign Minister Lavrov outraged by new appointment of Yarosh.
• Political asylum in Ukraine for Russian opposition.

Key Events of Ukraine

• President Poroshenko stated that the procedure for granting political asylum to Russian opposition will become more simple.

Ukraine at War

• The situation in the conflict zone escalated dramatically. In Peski, Shyrokino and Krymske Ukrainian troops repulsed many militants attacks who used heavy artillery and tanks. Several Ukrainian soldiers are wounded .
• Ukraine's Foreign Ministry warned that unilateral deployment of Russian "peacekeepers" in the Donbass will be regarded as an act of aggression. The representative of the Anti-Terrorist Operation headquaters stated that in the Lugansk region there are already several Russian "peacekeeping" units that participated in the aggression against Georgia.
• The leader of the Crimean Tatars Chubarov said that the issues of water supply to the Crimea should be discussed with the obligatory participation of Medzhdlis and speculations about the "economically reasonable prices" are a betrayal of the interests of Ukraine.

Ukraine and the World

• Wife of former President Clinton announced about her intention to run for the US president. Acting President Obama supported her candidacy.
• Turkey recalled its ambassador to the Vatican after the Pope Francis's statement about the acknowledgment of the genocide of Armenians.
• NATO suspects the members of the Russian mission at NATO headquarters in Brussels of espionage and halves the number of the Russian delegation representatives.
• Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov is outraged by the appointment of the leader of the "Right Sector" Yarosh an “advisor of Commander in Chief"

The Trends

• Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) Filaret in the Easter message said that the Ukrainian people will cetrainly win the war unleashed by Russia. At the same time, President Poroshenko once again stated that the war will be over, because "we want peace."