05/24/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights -Moscow Patriarch Kirill accused Ukraine of impiety

Moscow Patriarch Kirill

05.24.2015 Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• Moscow Patriarch Kirill accused Ukraine of impiety.
• Elections in Poland.
• Winners of the Cannes Film Festival announced.

Key Events of Ukraine

• Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Chalyi on the air at Channel 5 said that the political obstacles to the abolition of the visa regime with the EU were eliminated. According to him, President of Poroshenko, as well as society in general, are not satisfied with the pace of reforms, but the Eastern Partnership summit had shown that confidence in Ukraine was not yet lost.
• Kiev Patriarchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church stated that accusations of Ukraine of impiety, brought forward by the Moscow Patriarchy, are part of the Kremlin's propaganda, and Patriarch Kirill should call on President Putin and the Russian leadership to stop the aggression against Ukraine.

War

• Fighting in the Donbass does not cease at the weekend as well. According to ATO headquarters official reports, during the fighting three soldiers were wounded . Near Shyrokine, one soldier was killed and several were injured. Avdiyivka coking plant was finally stopped after shellings. There were fights in the surroundings of the Donetsk airport, near Dzerzhinsk, Artemivsk, "Bahmutka" highway. Water supply line, providing water to the territories under the militants control in the Luhansk region, which was damaged by the militants the previous day, was not yet repaired.
• Russia continues to transfer the military equipment to the Donbass, moving the reserves to the state border with Ukraine. Another convoys were recorded near ​​Matveyev Kurgan.

Ukraine and the World

• In Poland, the second round of the presidential election between the acting President Komorowski and opposition candidate Duda from the party of late President Kaczyński took place. According to opinion polls, the number of their supporters differed by less than percent. According to the exit polls results Andrzej Duda wins.
• The winners of the Cannes Film Festival are announced. The main prize - "The Palme d'Ors" - received the French director Jacques Audiard.
• Greece does not have money to pay the debt to the IMF in June, once again it is facing a default.

The Trends

• Demilitarization of Shyrokine, announced by the working subgroup of the Minsk Contact Group, failed, militants continue to attack and shell the  positions of the Ukrainian troops. Domestic and foreign experts believe that no ceasefire agreements will be followed by the militants, controlled by Russia, and the situation in the region will be used to put the pressure on Ukraine.