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| Saakashvili named the country’s main corruptionists |
12.06.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency
Topics from Media and Social Networks
- Saakashvili named the country’s main corruptionists.
- Crimean Tatar leaders agreed to connect one power transmission line to supply electricity to Crimea.
- US Vice President and Assistant Secretary of State arrived to Kyiv.
Key Events In Ukraine
- At an anti-corruption forum in Odessa chaired by the Head of State Administration Saakashvili, the country’s main corruptionists wer named: oligarchs Akhmetov, Kolomoisky, Firtash and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk.
- NBU will hold an auction for the sale of government bonds maturing in 2019, for the first time in three months.
Ukraine at War
- The situation in the combat area in Donbas is far from the ceasefire. Militants continue to fire at the Ukrainian army positions from small arms and mortars. Near Donetsk and Artemovsk, battles continue using armored vehicles. A Ukrainian soldier was killed near Horlivka.
- Crimean Tatar leaders Cemilev and Chubarov, after a meeting with President Poroshenko, said they agreed to connect one power line to supply electricity to Crimea. Activists at the administrative border with the peninsula did not allow maintenance crews to restore power lines.
- Observers in the occupied Donbas reported a sharp decrease in gas pressure, leading to the shutdown of heating and hot water supply in some municipal districts. The Ukrainian side has not reported any gas supply shutoffs. According to experts, the decision to reduce gas supplies was made in Russia.
- Chief of General Staff Muzhenko sees no need for declaring the seventh wave of mobilization, it dates depending on the situation in Donbas.
- President Poroshenko promised that the salaries of the military will be not lower than those of the police. Chief of General Staff announced its increase starting January 1, 2016.
Ukraine and the World
- Poland's Defense Ministry refused to deploy nuclear weapons in the country.
- US President Obama said that the terrorist threat has moved into a new phase and called on Congress to authorize the use of land troops against the "Islamic State."
- In the first round of local elections in France, the far-right pro-Russian National Front party dramatically strengthened its positions, winning in six out of thirteen regions.
- US Vice President Biden and Assistant Secretary Nuland arrived in Kyiv.
- President Poroshenko said that a mini-summit with the EU on the introduction of a Free Trade Area and the granting of the visa-free regime to Ukraine will be held on December 16.
The Trends
- After a meeting of President Poroshenko with the leaders of the Crimean Tatars Dzhemilev and Chubarov, the latter announced that the electricity supplies to Crimea would be restored, despite the fact that none of the demands put forward at the beginning of the blockade were met. According to them, this would be in exchange for a complete stoppage of trade with the occupied peninsula. Resumed electricity supplies to Crimea would be perceived by activists and volunteers as aiding and abetting Putin, while the residents of Crimea and Russia would see it as the victory of their president and the defeat of Ukraine.
- The declaration that Prime Minister Yatseniuk is the countrys’ main corruptionist made by the Head of the Odessa Regional State Administration Saakashvili on the eve of the arrival to the country of high-ranking US officials may indicate that the presidential team has decided to replace the head of the Government and to completely reformat the Cabinet. According to some political analysts, the emergence of an anti-corruption parliamentary group consisting of Petro Poroshenko Bloc MPs could be the beginning of a new party project under the auspices of the President. The new party may be headed by Saakashvili.
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