05/11/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Birthday of deputy of Ukrainian Parliament and PACE, Nadiya Savchenko

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05.11.2015 Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social Networks

• Birthday of deputy of Ukrainian Parliament and PACE,  Nadiya Savchenko.
• The report of the deceased Russian opposition leader Nemtsov, "Putin. War ".
• TV film "Airport" about the defenders of the Donetsk international airport named “cyborgs”.

Key Events of Ukraine

• President Poroshenko and members of the National Security and Defense Council visited the "Desna" training center in the Chernihiv region, where they were shown new types of anti-tank weapons. Poroshenko estimated the probability of militants attack with the use of  large armored formations as high. Army equipped with modern high-precision systems would be able to stop the aggression, he said.

Ukraine at War

• Militants don’t stop attacking the Ukrainian army positions. At least four soldiers were wounded during the shelling of Shyrokine and Stanitsa Luhanska. Anti-terrorist operation Headquarters state that for the first time in a long period there was no shelling for four hours.
• Deputy Commander of ATO Forces Fedichev said that at the moment more than 9 thousand Russian military are present in the Donbass. Overall number of militants soldiers is more than 43 thousand, they are armed with more than 700 tanks and 4 SRBMs  "Tochka-U" (NATO: SS-21 “Scarab”).
• One of the leaders of self-proclimed Donetsk “repiblic” Pushilin announced about their readiness to hold local elections, if Kiev grants the Donbass and other regions a widest autonomy within Ukraine. Otherwise, the DPR will "move towards the full independence".
• Ukraine officially registered more than 850 thousand IDPs from the Crimea and the Donbass.

Ukraine and the World

• NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg once again stated that Russia, which bears a special responsibility for the observance of the Minsk Agreement, provides the Donbass separatists with heavy weapons, artillery, training, and personnelб and is increasing its presence on the eastern border of Ukraine. He warned of possible beginning of the militants offensive in the Donbass any time soon.
• The main points of the report of the Russian opposition leader Nemtsov, "Putin. War " were published, providing data on the losses of the Russian budget and the army due to the war in Ukraine. The supporters believe that Nemtsov was killed for trying to disclose this information.
• Large-scale military exercises of the Baltic countries naval forces with the participation of NATO ships began.

The Trends

• Most civil activists are convinced that Savchenko could be released from the Russian prison if country’s leadership wanted to do that, e.g. she could be exchanged for Russian paratroopers captures near Ilovaisk. However, at a time when the authorities increase pressure on volunteers, such desire is absent. Moreover, for many politicians in Ukraine her death in the Moscow prison is beneficial.