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| Bellingcat Group narrowed number of suspects in downing of MH-17 to 20 people |
01.03.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine
Topics from Media and Social Networks
- Bellingcat Group narrowed number of suspects in downing of MH-17 to 20 people.
- Relative calm came to the combat zone in the Donbass.
- Kyiv wine factory rename “Soviet champagne” to "Sovetovskoe" within the requirements of de-communisation bill.
Key Events in Ukraine
- Miners from state mines in the Lviv region started strike due to non-payment of salaries for November and December. Salaries also were not paid to miners of Donbass.
- Defense Minister Poltorak called the statement on the abolition of conscription for military service and the transition to a contract army as populist, because it is unable to win the war and in the case of escalation of the situation it will be necessary to declare mobilization.
Ukraine at War
- Relative truce observed in the combat zone in the Donbass due to the fierce cold weather with minor clashes on Bakhmut and Horlivka directions and in the vicinity of Donetsk. As a result of a shot from the Russian side of the state border a soldier was killed in the Luhansk region. Soldiers of the regiment "Dnepr-1" also reported the death of a soldier who served in the unit, however, according to official reports, the army suffered no losses over the past day. Intelligence handed data on clusters of heavy military equipment in the vicinity of the contact line to OSCE observers.
- Queues of vehicles are growing at the checkpoints in the occupied territory. Civil society activists have reported cases of non-renewal of the automatic SBU paper passes and advise to re-register before the trip.
- According to intelligence, Russian occupation army counterintelligence carries out "clearing" among illegal armed groups with an aim to put them under complete subordination to the Russian command and take control of smuggling channels.
- Peak hour blackouts occur in the occupied Crimea in the absence of power supply from Ukraine.
Ukraine and the World
- Foreign Minister of Belarus Mahey said that Minsk is ready to mediate the conflict between Russia and Turkey.
- The expert group Bellingcat narrowed number of the Russian military involved in destroying the Malaysian flight MH-17 to 20 people. The information have been transferred to the Dutch investigators.
- European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid Stylianidis said that €30 million assistance has been provided for Ukraine during the 2015.
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