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| Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promised to raise salaries to state employees starting September 1 |
08.30.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency
Topics from Media and Social Networks
- Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promised to raise pensions and salaries to state employees starting September 1.
- A quiet day in Donbas.
- In Odessa, Automaidan stormed a building belonging to the former chairman of the CEC Kivalov.
Key Events in Ukraine
- Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promised to raise minimum wages, benefits and pensions starting September 1.
- The government appointed a new acting head of the Migration Service.
- Chief of General Staff Muzhenko said that the registry of recruits and reservists will be created before November. According to him, the army cannot be comprised completely of contract personnel, and it needs to be at least 200,000 strong to ensure the country's defence capacity.
- Minister of Economic Development Abromavicius proposed to merge large strategic state-owned enterprises into a holding company, privatizing and selling the rest.
- Foreign Minister Klimkin said that he would work closely with Western colleagues on the "Sentsov-Savchenko List." This list will include persons who participated in the persecution and violence against Ukrainian nationals.
Ukraine at War
- Antiterrorist Operation Headquarters reported a sharp decrease in the number of attacks on the Ukrainian army positions. According to the official reports, one soldier was wounded. Intelligence reported that militants plan to carry out a large-scale provocation on September 1 with human casualties.
- The leader of the DPR militants Zakharchenko said that the "elections" in the territory under their control will be held without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities.
Ukraine and the World
- Foreign Minister Klimkin stated that a mechanism was found to create an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the downing of the Malaysian airliner in the skies over Donbas.
The Trends
- According to experts, President Poroshenko has enough votes to pass in the final first reading the amendments to the Constitution. The voting on the bill is scheduled for August 31 at the extraordinary session of the Parliament. It could be thwarted by blocking the rostrum by the deputies of Sampomich faction and the Radical Party. The Presidential Administration has placed a strong pressure on faction leaders and deputies, accusing the opponents of the changes to the Constitution of lobbying for Russian interests, although the changes were initiated directly by the Minsk Agreement that Ukraine abides to unilaterally
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