01/10/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights -Prime Minister Yatsenyuk urged citizens to more actively formalize the subsidies

Prime Minister Yatsenyuk urged citizens to more actively formalize the subsidies

01.10.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk urged citizens to more actively formalize the subsidies .
• It is planned to appoint General Lytvyn a Deputy Army Component Commander.
• Mayor Klitschko with his brother rest in the ski resort, while the snow in Kiev is not being cleaned.

Key Events in Ukraine

• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk claimed that almost every third Ukrainian receives the financial aid from the state  and urged the citizens to actively formalize the subsidies for utilities. According to him, if the temperature in the living accomodation drops below 12 degrees, it is not necessary to pay for heating, and if it drops below 18 - the payment should be reduced. The Prime Minister said that enough amount of the natural gas for the heating season is accumulated in the underground storages .

Ukraine at War

• The number of the  militants attacks in the conflict zone in the Donbass reduced, but during the clashes at Horlivka, two soldiers were killed.

Ukraine and the World

• Russian President Putin called a decision of the West to introduce the sanctions in response to the Russian annexation of the Crimea "stupid and harmful".
• "Radio Liberty" made the "Czech friends of the Kremlin" movie about the influence of President Putin on  Czech President Zeman public.
• Iran announced its readiness to build the gas pipelines and to start supplying natural gas to Europe, India and China in the event of further decrease in world oil prices. The US began deliveries of liquefied natural gas to Europe and hopes to take the third place in the world after Qatar and Australia by 2020 .
• The League of Arab States supported Saudi Arabia in the conflict with Iran.
• Russia's Strategic Missile Forces planned 16 launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles for 2016 .

The Trends

• According to Stratfor intelligence service , the Russian command took under its full control the local military formations of militias in the Luhansk region, and in Donetsk region it is conducting "purges". Thus, an effective military unit under the Russian command will be formed in the occupied territories.