10/10/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Ukraine and Russia did not agree to restructure the "Yanukovych loan"

Ukraine and Russia did not agree to restructure the "Yanukovych loan"

10.10.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

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• Ukraine and Russia did not agree to restructure the "Yanukovych loan"
• In the conflict zone in the Donbass, militants provoke Ukrainian army to return the fire
• Former CEC Head Kivalov withdrew his candidacy for the elections of the mayor of Odessa.
• In Kiev, unknown persons beat up Luhansk separatist Klinchaev.

In Ukraine

• Finance Ministers of Russia and Ukraine failed to agree on restructuring of the loan taken by the Government of former President Yanukovych. Russia is waiting for the full repayment of a loan of $ 3 billion in December.
• Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Gritsak said that at the talks in Minsk, former head of the presidential administration, godfather of Russian President Putin, Medvedchuk plays the role of communicator with the leaders of the unrecognized republics.
• Former Head of the Central Election Commission, a member of the Party of Regions, Kivalov, withdrew his candidacy from the elections of the mayor of Odessa after the grenade explosion near one of his houses.
• In Kiev unknown persons beat up Luhansk separatist Klinchaev, who participated in the seizure of the administrative buildings in Lugansk in April 2014.

Ukraine at War

• During the day in the conflict zone in the Donbass remained truce. Militants are conducting provocative attacks, to which Ukrainian army does not respond. As a result of shooting near the Donetsk airport there are casualties among civilians, and there was a fire in a nine-storey building. The Head of the OSCE mission expressed his concern and called on the parties to the conflict to comply with the Minsk agreement.
• The leader of the terrorists DPR once again postponed till April local elections in the occupied territories.
• General Military Prosecutor Matios considers possible an exchange of captured soldiers of the GRU special forces of the Russian Federation to Savchenko, Sentsov and other Ukrainian citizens illegally detained in Russia .

Ukraine and the World

• As a result of the terrorist attack in Ankara (Turkey), 97 people were killed, dozens were injured. Experts connect the spread of terrorism throughout the country with the escalation of the conflict in Syria, from where a strong flow of refugees is directed to Turkey and  with whom the militants of the Islamic State are penetrating into the country .
• The Pentagon and the Ministry of Defense of Russia held consultations on Syria to avoid collisions of aircrafts during the air strikes of the Russian aircrafts in the conflict zone.
• UN Secretary-General criticized Russia's actions in Syria and said the air strikes still cause a big problem.
• The commander of US forces in Europe, General Hodges said that Russia launched a military operation in Syria in order to divert world’s attention from the events in Ukraine.
• On the eve of the presidential elections in Belarus, the opposition held a meeting at which they called for a boycott. Leaders of the protesters said that the elections outcome is predetermined.
• Egypt signed a contract with France for the supply of the"Mistral"  class helicopter carriers which were not delivered to Russia due to the imposition of sanctions.