05/012015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Communists tried to hold May Day demonstrations in different cities of Ukraine

Communists tried to hold May Day demonstrations in different cities of Ukraine

01/05/2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social networks

• Communist Party leader Symonenko was poured over with yoghurt during the May Day demonstration.
• Moscow denied Poroshenko’s statement about their consent for deployment of peacekeeping forces in the Donbass.
• British billionaire Branson offers to openly sell marijuanna in Ukraine.
• Utility tariffs for water supply increased by 5-6 times.
• “Femen” activists tried to disrupt the speech of nationalist leader Le Pen in Paris.
  

Key Events of Ukraine

• Despite the ban by local authorities Communists tried to hold May Day demonstrations in different cities of Ukraine.
• From May 1 in Ukraine rates for water supply increased by 6.5 times.
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk announced that "Naftogaz" filed a claim against "Gazprom" in the Stockholm arbitration for the amount of more than $ 16 billion. "Gazprom" says that its counterclaims are for a much bigger amount.
• Ukrainian expedition left for Nepal to evacuate Ukrainian citizens after the catastrophic earthquake. It was impossible to make a contact with part of them.

Ukraine at War

• The fighting in the Peski, Avdiyivka and Shyrokine goes on. According to officials, during the day two Ukrainian soldiers were killed, two more were injured.
• Deputy Head of the President Administration stated that there is a group of militants and Russian forces present in the occupied territory of Donbass, containing about 50 thousand people.
• The leader of the Donetsk “republic” militants Zakharchenko announced that they refuse to fulfill the "Minsk Agreement" and "the army of New Russia" is ready to attack Ukraine.
• The occupation authorities of Crimea confiscated the building owned by Majlis.
• In the Poltava region demobilized soldiers returning home suffered from a road accident.

Ukraine and the World

• Russian President’s spokesman Peskov denied the statement of President Poroshenko about Moscow’s consent for deployment of peacekeeping contingent in the Donbass.
• NATO Secretary General's Special Representative Appathurai said that the Alliance is not satisfied with the pace of changes in the Ukrainian army, and that creates obstacles for its efficient support.