09/27/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - British Prime Minister Cameron promised Ukraine military-technical assistance

British Prime Minister Cameron promised Ukraine military-technical assistance

09.27.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

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• British Prime Minister Cameron promised Ukraine military-technical assistance.
• There was a skirmish in Kyiv, involving assistants of the Radical Party deputies.

Key Events in Ukraine

• President Poroshenko spoke at the Summit on Sustainable Development within the framework of the UN General Assembly. He said that Ukraine spends $ 5 million daily on the war in the Donbass , which are the funds needed for the solution of social problems, including assistance to 1.5 million internally displaced persons.
  British Prime Minister Cameron promised to send military trainers and targeted assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to heads of states, "elections" in the Donbass will destroy the Minsk agreement.
  President Poroshenko also met German Chancellor Merkel to discuss the issues of introduction of a free trade zone with the EU, visa-free regime for Ukrainian citizens and preparations for the meeting of the "Normandy Four" states heads.
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk said that Ukraine is ready to hold local elections in the Donbass after regaining control over the border with Russia and restoration of the Ukrainian power and jurisdiction on the occupied territory. He said that Ukraine needs a permanent cease-fire, not a cease-fire for the time of the UN General Assembly.
• Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Groisman called for raising of the  MPs salaries, but offers to introduce fines for truancies and fights. He proposes to associate the salaries of civil servants with  the results of their work.

Ukraine at War

• Relative inactivity remains in the Donbass. One soldier was killed and one more was wounded as a result of mine explosions. The positions of the Ukrainian army were shelled three times in the area of Artemivsk .
• The explosion near the Secret Service building in Odessa was qualified as a terrorist act.

Ukraine and the World

• During his speech at the UN General Assembly President of Belarus Lukashenko said that if the bloodshed in the Donbass is not stopped, the situation may lead to a new world war.
• The pro-Russian opposition, which is holding a rally in the capital of Moldova, put forward an ultimatum demanding the resignation of the President .
• During early parliamentary elections in the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia the supporters of independence for the region received an absolute majority of the votes.