Eye Catchers
- “DPR, LPR ready to withdraw weapons under 100 mm calibre from line of engagement” – “Ukraine Rebels Claim Readiness To Pull Back Tanks, Smaller Arms” – “Ukraine rebels: Ready to pull back tanks, smaller weapons”
- “Bill on elections in Donetsk Republic passes first reading”
- “In Kharkiv SBU blocked the theft of military property” (SBU, in Ukrainian)
- “Ukrainian athletes join the training mobilized …. According to Dmytro Hryshchenko, will soon be introduced joint program, when the best athletes coaches of various sports federations will be involved in the process of preparing soldiers ….” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian)
- “Ukrainian Neo-Nazis: Poroshenko Could Be ‘Executed in Dark Basement’ “
Updates
- “Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 17 July 2015”
- “OSCE patrol blocked, searched by militants in Komsomolsk” – “Russia-backed militants in Donbas withdraw weapons from contact line”
- “Kiev pulls to front line 70,000 soldiers – DPR head”
- “Poroshenko awards 64 Ukrainian servicemen posthumously” – “The President noted awards 64 military and police officers who died in the fighting in the area ATO” (in Ukrainian) – –
Mukacheve/Mukachevo
- “The President dismissed all heads of district state administrations Transcarpathian region” (in Ukrainian)
- “New police units to patrol in Transcarpathia” (UKR MIA, in Ukrainian) – “In Transcarpathia will be a new police” (in Ukrainian) – “Avakov has promised new patrols Uzhgorod and Mukachevo” (in Ukrainian)
- “Zakarpattya militia headed by Colonel of military experience” (in Ukrainian)
- “Interior Minister visited the hospital police officers injured during the events in Mukachevo” (UKR MIA, in Ukrainian)
- “Right Sector doesn’t believe in unbiased inquiry into Mukacheve events, ready to defend its fighters” – “Right Sector doesn’t believe in unbiased inquiry into Mukacheve events, ready to defend its fighters”
- “Right Sector to hold popular assembly in Kyiv on Tuesday”
- “Radicals and bully. At the crossroads Mukachevo” (in Ukrainian)
Mariupol & Environs
- “Hollande, Merkel note importance of Ukraine’s constitutional reform, urge for Shyrokyne demilitarization” – “Lavrov and Steinmeier call for soonest Ukrainian troops’ withdrawal from Shyrokino”
Lviv/Lvov
Oh, those Russians ….
- “Russian troops in Donbas: Russian mercenaries arrived to ‘LPR’ from South Ossetia”
- “Thousands of Paratroopers, Quads Land During Airborne Drills in West Russia”
MH-17 Shootdown
- “In Ukraine jet crash aftermath, a veteran Mountie helped with a grim task”
- “Rebels in eastern Ukraine publish eyewitness testimonies claiming MH17 wasn’t alone in the sky”
- “MH17 Crash Prompts Int’l Aviation Agencies to Limit Anti-Aircraft Weaponry”
The Humanitarian Crisis
Other
- “Parliament approved the additional funds required Army …. (On) July 17, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed bill number 2381 “On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine” On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2015 “(to increase spending for defense and security).” At the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine needs additional 5 billion (CDN $293 million) will be allocated 140 million UAH (CDN $8.2 million) ….” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian)
Elsewhere In The Neighbourhood ….
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