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  In Ukraine, killing three soldiers
 
 
 

The soldiers were killed in the explosion of a mine near Awdijiwki. Two other military was then injured. Separatists continue to use heavy military equipment that was to be withdrawn from the front line.

President of Petro Poroshenko, who visited the training ground near Kiev emphasizes that the army is becoming more weapons produced in the territory of Ukraine. Reborn arms plants, which over the years to decay. Now working in three shifts. Also failed to increase employment. – Destroy tanks and transporters unemployment – he said.

Attempts in Donetsk

The re-active pro-Russian forces in Ukraine’s Donetsk alerts staff antiterrorist operation (ATO).

The Communication ATO says that before 10:00 our time in the direction of Donetsk fired mortars in the area on the outskirts of the cement plant. An hour later, there was another fire. This time, the area of ​​the village Staromichałowka. In Donetsk side opened fire from there three IFV infantry combat vehicles and tank belonging to the separatists.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Council National Security and Defence, Andriy Lysenko, reported that in Donbas as a result of a mine explosion killed three Ukrainian soldiers and two wounded. The incident took place near Donetsk Awdijewce. This is the first victim at the front of the week.

This week, the Ukrainian army staff informed about the collection of additional separatists forces on the front. Ukrainians fear the storm.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk: conflict in the east of the country does not end soon

Meanwhile, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk in a published interview with the daily “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” believes that armed conflict in the Donbas not end soon, and the country has not much time to carry out the necessary reforms. He adds that Vladimir Putin wants to keep Ukraine as a “pledge” and “scope” later in the fight against the West.

According to Yatsenyuk does not have much chance to regulate in the near future conflict in eastern Ukraine, occupied by separatists supported by Russia. – I want to make it clear: we do not solve this soon – he said.

– Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to keep Ukraine as a “pledge” and “scope” later in the fight against the West – the head of government in Kiev. He added that the key challenge is the Ukrainian authorities “to stop the march of separatists” and protection of armistice lines as part of a peace agreement with Minsk.

Yatsenyuk does not expect that in the near future will be a “liberation (occupied by separatists) areas”. When asked whether this part of Ukraine will be a kind of addition to the rest of the Ukrainian territory, which the authorities in Kiev will seek to strengthen, policies completed: “Trying not to weaken it.”

“SZ” notes that the Prime Minister clearly distanced himself from the Ukrainian oligarchs such Dmytro Firtash and Ihor Kolomoyskyi.

Against Firtaszowi in the US under investigation on suspicion of corruption on an international scale; is also considered the “brain” of the Agency. Modernisation of Ukraine, which aims at healing the Ukrainian public finances. In the context of Yatsenyuk Firtash said that anyone who breaks the law will be held accountable; also recalled that the anti-oligarch in Ukraine pending investigation.

About Kołomojskim, which in March under pressure Petro Poroshenko President handed in his resignation from the post of governor of Dnipropetrovsk, Yatsenyuk said that he “has done its job,” or refrain from taking over the separatist region subject to him.

The head of the Ukrainian government has rated it that Ukraine, unlike some of its neighbors missed the right moment after the transition, and therefore now have a “maybe about two years” to complete the necessary radical economic reforms.

(KT)