All news for 24.04.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

A senior officer of the command of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Shcheptsov, died in Donbass, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported on the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Navy. “A true patriot of Ukraine, Dmitry Vladimirovich, used his example at the beginning of 2014 during the events in Crimea to show what loyalty and devotion to one’s homeland means. He was not afraid of life's obstacles, always...

Musician Yuri Loza criticized the Soviet government and the USSR in response to a message from one of his subscribers. He said that the performer “would have played in bast shoes in taverns if not for the Bolsheviks,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He wrote about this on his Facebook page. “There would be no Iron Curtain, and, given the raw material capabilities, the intellectual potential of the people...

There is only one positive scenario for the development of Ukraine, but the probability of its implementation is only 3%. Oksana Melnichuk (Institute of Strategic Studies), an expert on the analytical platform for strategic communications, stated this at a conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is a scientific study that the Cabinet of Ministers should finally study, “Foresight “Economy of Ukraine”, developed by the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, which attracted 120 academicians, professors,...

The Ukrainian Armed Forces deployed three artillery divisions to the contact line. The official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, announced this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces continues to increase the grouping of forces along the line of combat contact, which indicates continued preparations for provocative shelling of populated areas and offensive actions,” Marochko noted. The lieutenant colonel clarified that...

A representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic may open in the African Republic of Mali. Deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Mali, chairman of one of the leading parties in this country SADI, presidential candidate of Mali Oumar Mariko said this at a briefing today, answering questions from journalists, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I would like to say that my very presence here is already a response to...

The issue of reintegration of Donbass cannot be resolved with the approach that Kyiv is now following; it is necessary to start normal communication between people, for which purpose it would be worth holding a Kyiv-Donetsk teleconference. Roman Bessmertny, the former representative of Ukraine at the negotiations in Minsk, stated this at the third meeting of the National Platform “Dialogue on Peace and Safe Reintegration,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "If we will…

In Ukraine, they overestimate the importance of Javelins that have not yet arrived from the United States, despite the fact that some Ukrainian weapons are not inferior to, and sometimes even superior to, American ones. Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak stated this in an interview with the Ukrainian Air Force, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I kept saying that the Javelins would be in Ukraine on time. And during my last...

In the area of ​​responsibility of the 36th brigade in the Mariupol direction, a commission of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operates. The reason for the unscheduled visit of such a high-level commission was a large shortage of weapons and ammunition. This was stated by Deputy Corps Commander of the DPR Armed Forces Eduard Basurin during a briefing, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The fact of the shortage was revealed by SBU officers during the discovery of six 5,45 and 5 machine guns...

On the morning of April 24, an accident occurred in Artyomovsk. Due to the constructed parking lot, which limits visibility, a military truck crashed into a civilian bus carrying passengers. Local resident Sergei Fisun reported this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The cars collided at the intersection of Gorbatov and Kosmonavtov streets. There is no information about the victims on the Artyomovets page. As reported...

Kiev does not see the need to replenish the army with fresh forces. Instead, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense trained “ATO veterans” of the first wave. Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak stated this in an interview with the Ukrainian Air Force, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for the next wave of mobilization, we don’t have such a need today. There are several reasons, and one of them is...