10/14/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Ukraine celebrated the Defender’s Day

Ukraine celebrated the Defender’s Day

10.14.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

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• Ukraine celebrated the Defender’s Day.
• President Poroshenko flew a fighter aircraft in Zaporizhya.
• Moscow court sentenced a 73-year-old Ukrainian, former plant director, to a prison term for espionage.

09/09/2014 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Preliminary investigative report of the MH-17 flight catastrophe was published -

09/09/2014 Daily Highlights by “Digest & Analytics” News Agency

OSCE observers evidence numerous truce breaches from the side of DPR and LPR militants and Russian army. Preliminary investigative report of the MH-17 flight catastrophe defines that the aircraft was penetrated by a large number of high-energy objects from the outside, that resulted in an in-flight structural disintegration of the plane.

22/07/2014 Daily Highlights by “Digests & Analytics Ukraine” News Agency

Ukraine

• President Poroshenko, clarified at the meeting with Verkhovna Rada fractions and deputy groups leaders that Ukraine is not ready for the introduction of martial law, as in this case it would be impossible to get the support of international financial institutions, supply of arms and dual-use goods, as well as in the case of the declaration of martial law the opposite opposite side of the conflict will be protected by international law. Based on this context, anti-terrorist operation will continue and efforts should be focused on recognition of DPR and LPR as international terrorist organizations.
• Verkhovna Rada amended its governance principles, allowing the chairman to dissolve specific fraction should number of its deputies decrease  versus initial one during formation on the first session. This allows to eliminate parliamentary faction of the Communist Party, that have been abandoned by several deputies. The law was signed by President Poroshenko.