04/25/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Poroshenko attended military exercises at a military training ground in the Mykolaiv region

Minister of Defense and President Poroshenko

04/25/2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social Networks

• Poroshenko attended military exercises at a military training ground in the Mykolaiv region.
• Recall of the Ambassador to Belarus Yezhel.
• The criminal case against oligarch Akhmetov.
• The largest earthquake in Nepal.
• Putin’s bikers began their scandalous motocross to Berlin.
• The continuation of negotiations with the leaders of the terrorist "republics”.

Key Events of Ukraine

• President Poroshenko recalls the ambassador to Belarus, former Defense Minister Yezhel to Ukraine, where there is a criminal case for abuse of office and embezzlement of public funds against him.
• The Prime Minister and the Minister of Energy Yatsenyuk Demchishin said that attempts to undermine the situation in the country with the miners' strike will be stopped.
• President, Minister of Defense and Secretary of the National Security Council visited the military exercise of paratroopers at the training ground in the Mykolaiv region. Poroshenko said that Ukrainian army is one of the most battle-worthy, but the troops will not go on the offensive and will abide by the Minsk agreement.
• The Government does not intend to abandon the import duties and hopes for a successful negotiation of their position with the WTO.
• People's deputy Firsov confirmed the existence of a criminal case against the oligarch Akhmetov on charges of separatism and terrorism financing despite denials by Aksmetov’s press service.

Ukraine at War

• Militants shelled towns near Volnovakhawith MLRS "Grad", and in Shirokine where one Ukrainian soldier died and two were wounded.
• Observers reported a redeployment of Russian military units to the administrative border of the Crimea.
• Former President Kuchma announced negotiations by video to be held on April 29 between the contact group and leaders of Donbass “republics” militants on issues of heavy weaponry pull back, the ceasefire, the release of illegally detained persons, the delivery of humanitarian aid to the occupied Donbass.

Ukraine and the World

• Germany, following the Czech Republic and Poland, has banned the entry of Putin bikers who had gathered to hold motocross in honor of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War from Moscow to Berlin through Belarus, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria. The motocross has began, despite the ban.
• Ukraine requests a list of sanctions from the EU, which will be imposed on Russia in the event of a sharp deterioration of the situation in the Donbass.