MILNEWS.ca #UKR Update – 262130UTC June 2015

• More of the latest from Ukraine here and here
• “No training for Azov regiment: (CAN DefMin) Kenney” – “Small number of ‘bad apples’ shouldn’t harm Ukraine’s image, Kenney says — Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Azov regiment is nothing more than “small number of bad apples” who should not be allowed to define the embattled eastern European country’s image ….”
• “Ukrainian defence minister warns of Russian threat at meeting with Canadian counterpart”
• “Canada Contributes Troops to NATO’s NFIU”
• “Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 25 June 2015”
• “OSCE concerned by situation in Shyrokyne”
• “Ukraine: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – IDP Situation as of 22 June 2015” (UNHCR)
  
• “Night battles, day training, chats and other aspects of volunteer soldier life in Ukraine”
• Analysis  “South-Eastern Ukraine: the “Baked Alaska Conflict” — What can we call the miserable, simmering-occasionally-boiling-over war in south-eastern Ukraine? While writing something for a Serious Publication, I came up with the analogy of the baked alaska ….”
• “Poroshenko says 60,000 Ukrainian soldiers serving in Donbas now”
• “Separatists receive more arms from Russia – Foreign Minister of Luxembourg”
• “Commander of Berkut regiment, who was involved in execution of Heavenly Hundred has been detained – SBU Acting Head Hrytsak”
• “New battalion formed in Mariupol, – Donetsk Police Head Abroskin”
• “(DPR’s) Pushilin not rule out that the new treaty on the withdrawal of weapons held in Minsk” (in Russian)
• “Ukrainian border guards denying entry of Crimea for trucks carrying foodstuffs”
• “Kiev’s human rights envoy calls for social payments to Donbas instead of blockade”
• “Russian convoys into Ukraine – at least 30 and counting”
• “Poroshenko intends to submit draft of Constitutional amendments to the parliament next week”
• “Status of Donbas not to be stipulated in Constitution”
• “Ukraine to remain unitary state after constitution is amended – Poroshenko”
• “Kiev did not propose to discuss the Contact Group draft amendments to the Constitution – (LPR’s) Deinego” (in Russian)
  
• “Self-proclaimed Donetsk republic to “nationalize” farms of Akhmetov, Novinsky”
• “Pensions are paid regularly -⁠ (DPR’s) Alexander Zakharchenko”  (in Russian)

---