MILNEWS.ca #UKR Update – 041930UTC August 2015

• More of the latest from Ukraine here and here

Eye Catchers

• “Meeting of NSDC Military Cabinet is taking place under the presidency of the Head of State to coordinate further actions given the situation in Donbas” – “Poroshenko calls for plan to increase defense in case of conflict escalation” – “Poroshenko urges to define plan on strengthening defense in case of escalation” –
  
• “(Belarus’) Lukashenko says there will be no intervention to Ukraine from Belarus” – “Lukashenko: No intervention in Ukraine from Belarusian territory”

Updates

• “Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 4 August 2015”
• “Militants intentionally understate the number of Ukrainian prisoners, MP says” – source (in Ukrainian) – “Kiev says Donbas militias hold 240 Ukrainian POWs”

The Right Sector

• “Ukrainian (Right Sector) Nationalists Attack Opposition Party”
• “Right Sector Challenges Kyiv in Western Ukraine”

Crimea

• “Russian officials to discuss national security in Crimea on August 5”

Oh, those Russians ….

• “The 200th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Navy North Fleet in Ukraine”
• “2S19 ‘Msta-S’ Self Propelled Mortar from North Ossetia at the Border with Ukraine”

The Info-Fight

• “(UKR) Ministry of Information Policy calls provocation info on “paratroopers from Orenburg” “
• “Why Kiev’s Comparison of Donbass With Srpska Krajina Is Simply Wrong”

Elections

• “Head of Donetsk military and civil administration considers local elections in (UKR-held) Donbas should be postponed”
• “Poroshenko: Pseudo-elections in Donbas can disrupt Minsk accords” – “Fake elections can destroy peace in Donbas – Poroshenko” – “Fake Donbas elections could scupper Minsk agreements – Poroshenko”
• “Elections in Donetsk-Luhansk ‘People’s Republics’ And Russia’s New Conflict-Freeze Model”
• “Elections in Ukraine’s Secessionist Territory: A Topic of International Negotiation (Part One)” – Part Two

Minsk/Other Talks

• “Establishment of subgroup on border can be discussed in Minsk”

Other

• “Donbas to stay Ukrainian while Crimea to split off most probably – Lukashenko” – source article (in Russian)
• “President signed Law of Ukraine “On the National Police” “
• “PGO suspects ex-minister of interior Zakharchenko of grand bribery” – “Ukraine’s PGO suspects ex-minister Zakharchenko of receiving UAH 1.2 mln (CDN $73,000) bribe”

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