05/10/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Negotiations of Putin and Merkel in Moscow on the crisis in Ukraine

President Putin and Chancellor Merkel

05.10.2015 Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social networks

• Negotiations of Putin and Merkel in Moscow on the crisis in Ukraine.
• Ukraine celebrated Mother's Day.
• Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine estimated the losses in the Donbass at $ 350 billion.
• Russia demands from Ukraine security guarantees for their "convoys".

Key Events of Ukraine

• Ukraine celebrated the International Mother's Day. President Poroshenko awarded 450 Ukrainian women, having 5 or more children, with a title "Mother-Heroine" .
• Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Borovik stated that Russia must pay damages for the destructions in the Donbass in the amount of $ 350 billion.

Ukraine at War

• Under the guise of "parade" in honor of the Victory over fascism militants moved to the fighting line heavy equipment and artillery. Fighting and skirmishing continued in Shyrokine, Maryinka, surroundings of the Donetsk airport, Gorolivka, Schastya and Stanitsa Luganska.

Ukraine and the World

• The Moscow negotiations between the leaders of Russia and Germany took place. At the final press-conference, German Chancellor Merkel stated that Russia does not observe the Minsk Agreement, and the annexation of the Crimea threatens the peaceful order in Europe. Putin claimed that the Russian delegation will certainly come to Brussels to participate in the negotiations on the introduction of a free trade zone between Ukraine and the EU. He insists on direct talks of the Ukrainian government with the militants leaders for their legitimization and wants the international community to consider the Maydan events a coup in Ukraine.
• In the first round of the Presidential elections in Poland the opposition leader Duda took the lead. Former President Kwasniewski supported the acting President Komorowski. According to experts, the chances of the candidates are approximately equal.

The Trends

• Russian President Putin and German Chancellor Merkel discussed the termination of the Russian aggression in Moscow, in the absence of the Ukrainian President. Putin shows the world that he considers Ukraine a zone of his interests, including economic ones. He imposes the presence of the Russian delegation at the Brussels talks on the implementation of the economic part of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, despite the Europe’s unambiguous statement about the impossibility of another postponing of the introduction of a free trade zone.
• President Poroshenko’s failure to sign the law on the "decommunisation" allowed the pro-Russian forces and the "Opposition blok" to carry out actions in all major cities of the country under the separatist and communist slogans with impunity.
• Experts believe that one of the main reasons for the summer offensive of the Russian troops in the Donbass was the failure to sign the economic part of the agreement with the EU. So prior to the Brussels negotiations and the Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga there is a high probability of the escalation of hostilities in the Donbass.
• The Russian authorities consistently implement the provisions of the new ideological doctrine, based on the post-Soviet approaches. The population is being brainwashed in the spirit of the Communist principles with the help of media, fully controlled by the state, the legitimacy of Stalin is being revived and the crimes of the communist regime are being justified. Great Patriotic War, "St. George" Symbols and Orthodoxy are becoming the pillars upon which the government system of the Russian Federation rests. The former Soviet Union countries are announced to be an exclusive sphere of influence of the "new Russia". The weakness of the system is its total dependence on the energy prices and the unavailability of the country for the technological revolution.