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OFFICIAL
The Amendments to the Ukrainian Constitution that the Verkhovnaya Rada sent today to the Constitutional Court don’t implement the Minsk Agreement. Poroshenko doesn’t hide this. He frankly stated publicly that these amendments don’t provide a special status for the Donbass. Of course, all parties to the agreement know well that under the accords the Ukraine must grant a special status to the Donbass. That’s what Paragraph 3 of the 5 September 2014 Minsk Protocol and Paragraph 11 of the 12 February 2015 Minsk Package of Measures state. These documents explicitly call for a “special status”. However, Poroshenko said that the amendments contain no mention of a special status. So in vain did Mrs Nuland (US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Victoria Nuland) send goodies today to the Verkhovnaya Rada. The vote on the amendments not only didn’t help the situation, it worsened it. We demand that the Ukraine guarantee our special status in the main body of the Constitution, not in any temporary provisional provisions. The constitution must state specifically and clearly our political privileges. Firstly, we will build our relation with Kiev through mutually beneficial treaties and agreements. On less, we shall never agree, for war is better than deception.
I V Plotnitsky
LNR Chairman of the Government
16 July 2015
LITs Lugansk Information Centre
Voices from Russia 
DNR Minoborony Reported 52 Junta Ceasefire Violations
Tags: civil unrest, DNR, Donetsk People's Republic, Novorossiya, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian Civil War, war and conflict
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Today, the DNR Minoborony reported, “Over the past 24 hours, the enemy committed 52 ceasefire violations, including the use of heavy weapons. The enemy fired 41 artillery shells, 85 tank shells, and 204 8.2-cm/12-cm mortar shells; in addition, they used anti-aircraft guns, RPGs, and small arms. They fired at Donetsk (Donetsk airport), Yasinovataya, Gorlovka, Zaitsev, Golmovsky, Zhabunki, Nizhny Lozove, Kalinovka, Spartak, Shirokaya Balka, Belaya Kamenka, Novaya Laspa, Abakumovka, Nikolaevka, Staromikhailovka, and Krasny Oktyabr. Currently, we continue to clarify data on civilian and military casualties”.
16 July 2015
DAN Donetsk News Agency
http://dan-news.info/defence/vsu-za-sutki-52-raza-narushili-rezhim-prekrashheniya-ognya-minoborony.html