04/26/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster

Chernobyl disaster

04/26/2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics of the Media and Social Networks

• The anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
• Number of the earthquake victims in Nepal reached 2,500 people.
• Kiev semi-marathon participant died.
• EU will not send peacekeeping forces to Donbass
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk will not allow the coalition to be ruined.
• Klitschko defeated American boxer Jennings.

Key Events of Ukraine

• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk urged the West to provide to Ukraine, which protects Europe from the threat of a Russian invasion, with defensive weapons.
• About 500 million euros more is required to complete the construction of the "Shelter" object. The total project cost is $ 1.5 billion euros. President Poroshenko hopes for assistance from international donors to complete the construction.

Kyiv Life

• During the semi-marathon in Kiev 1 participant died, 12 were injured or lost consciousness.

Ukraine at War

• According to the press center of the anti-terrorist operation, the number of shellings and attacks on positions of the Ukrainian army has dramatically increased over the past day. At least one soldier is killed and seven soldiers are wounded. The fighting continued in  Shyrokine and surroundings of the Donetsk airport .

Ukraine and the World

• EU President Tusk stated that it is unlikely that the EU peacekeeping mission will be deployed in the Donbass in the near future.
• The current president of Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev is winning in the early presidential elections with an overwhelming majority of almost 100%.
• The victory of independent candidate Akinci in elections in the unrecognized Republic of Northern Cyprus gives a hope to resolve a longstanding conflict on the island.
• Russian authorities deny the information about the deployment of nuclear weapons in the Crimea.
• Russian President Putin during the filming of the "President" movie claimed that Russia would go to the end to protect its interests in the Crimea.
• The European Union Delegation agreed on a statement on the results of the EU-Ukraine summit which will be held on April 27th. Germany and France had tried to make amendments to the document, which were changing its essence completely. The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Mogherini will not take part in negotiations since at that time she plans to meet the UN Secretary General.

The Trends

• Prime Minister Yatseniuk admitted that there are serious disagreements in the ruling in Parliament coalition but he would not allow to ruin it as it happened in 2005.