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| Yatsenyuk said that the number of contract servicemen in the army has reached 140,000 |
01.31.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine
Topics from Media and Social Networks
- Prime Minister Yatsenyuk said that the number of contract servicemen in the army has reached 140,000.
- Samopomich party faction threatened to leave the parliamentary coalition.
Key Events n Ukraine
- Prime Minister Yatsenyuk informed that the number of contract personnel serving in the Armed Forces has reached 140,000. He urged to return to the budget the seized assets of former President Yanukovych and to use those funds to modernize the army and improve social standards.
- Finance Minister Yaresko discussed with EU Ambassador to Ukraine Tombinski the conditions for obtaining EU financial support in the amount of €600 million.
Ukraine at War
- In Donbas, militants continue to fire at the positions of the Ukrainian army with small arms, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and armoured vehicles. Firefights are taking place mostly in the Donetsk region, near Donetsk and Horlivka, and on Svitlodarsk and Volnovakha directions. In the past day, two soldiers were killed and four wounded by enemy fire and tripwire explosions.
Ukraine and the World
- German politicians have condemned the statement made by the leader of the Eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leader Petry on the need to use firearms at the border against the migrants who want to break into the country. According to opinion polls, the ratings of the ruling parties are falling, while the ratings of the radical parties proposing to solve the illegal migrants problem by drastic measures are growing. Chancellor Merkel said that the migrants will have to return to their country after the end of the war, but the radicals believe that conditions in the refugee camps are much better than those in their home countries, the migrants do not have to work, they receive an allowance, so the prospects of sending them home are meager.
- Russia and Poland failed to agree on the procedure for the motor transport transit through their territories, so starting February 1, the passage of freight trucks from Russia to Europe via Poland will stop, and Polish trucks will not be able to enter Russia.
The Trends
- Head of the parliamentary faction of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Lutsenko said that his party was ready to work with Prime Minister Yatsenyuk. The price of the issue could be the vote in Parliament on the bill to amend the Constitution, including the granting of the special status to the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Samopomich party faction in Parliament threatened to leave the coalition if its demands for the resignation of the Government are not met.
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