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The situation in the combat zone remains unstable. Russia-backed militants continue provocations, however, they decreased the use of heavy weapons in comparison to the previous week. Life in “DPR” and “LPR”<\/strong><\/p>\n The opening of a \u201cDPR\u201d \u201crepresentation\u201d in France. <\/strong>Illegal organization \u201cDPR\u201d released a statement<\/a> about the opening<\/a> of its \u201crepresentation\u201d in France. The opening is to take place in Marseille on September 25, at the Novotel Marseille Centre Prado conference hall. According to the Embassy of France in Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France addressed the Prosecutor\u2019s Office of France regarding the planned opening of the \u201cDPR representation\u201d in Marseille. It is reported that the office is registered in the country as a civic association and thus according to the law a prior approval is not required. At the same time, it cannot have any diplomatic powers. Meanwhile, in June 2017 a court in the Czech Republic, ruled to liquidate<\/a> the \u201cDPR\u201d \u201crepresentation\u201d in the Czech Republic as illegal. The second meeting of Presidents Poroshenko and Trump: main results<\/strong><\/p>\n Presidents Poroshenko and Trump met in Washington<\/a> on September 21. The US delegation also included the Vice President Mike Pence, the Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and the Secretary of Energy Rick Perry. Society: Why Ukrainian combat veterans are asking Apple to correct its advertising video?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ukrainian veterans of the war in eastern Ukraine recorded a video address to the Apple company. The reason for that became the company\u2019s promotional video for the Watch Series 3<\/a> that features a \u201cRussian cyborg\u201d \u2013 a Russian TV host with a prosthesis. Ukrainian veterans asked the company to take out the phrase<\/a> \u201cRussian cyborg\u201d of it and apologize to Ukrainian veterans. \u201cCyborgs\u201d is what the Ukrainian military and war veterans who took part in the fight for the Donetsk airport in May 2014 \u2013 January 2015 are called, emphasizing in such a way their incredible courage and unbreakable character. \u201cWhile my country has part of its land illegally occupied and annexed by the Russian Federation, its people killed, tortured and kidnapped, your company has wittingly or unwittingly colluded with the Russian Federation in its propaganda war against us,\u201d the video address says. The video response was produced at the initiative of the \u201cPobratymy<\/a>\u201d civil society organization that deals with rehabilitation programs for combat veterans.<\/p>\n Crimea: occupation authorities write off borrowers\u2019 debts with Ukrainian banks<\/strong><\/p>\n The de-facto parliament of the occupied Crimea adopted a \u201claw<\/a>\u201d that allows to write off the loan commitments that do not exceed 70 thousand euro that Crimeans have towards the Ukrainian banks. The document also foresees the mechanisms and the categories of borrowers who are entitled to their debts being restructured after the Ukrainian banks left the Russia-annexed peninsula.<\/p>\n Reforms in Ukraine: eHealth and first successes of decentralization<\/strong><\/p>\n eHealth<\/strong>. The eHealth electronic system has become available<\/a> for doctors and patients to be registered in test mode until April 1, 2018. It was informed by Acting Minister of Health Ulana Suprun<\/a>\u00a0at a press conference on September 20. According to Yurii Buhai, project manager of Transparency International Ukraine<\/a>, the eHealth project is being implemented with the support of the Governments of Canada, the US<\/a>, Germany, and the Global Fund. Decentralization progress.<\/strong> The results of the first half of 2017<\/a> revealed that in the regions the tendency for a growth prevails in the key spheres. The overall production of construction materials has increased by 24.6%. Capital investments countrywide have grown by 22.5%, of which 4.4% are foreign direct investments. On average, the growth rate of local budgets in Ukraine is 41.3%. Real wages have increased by 19.7%. The arrears of wages have decreased in 17 regions. Culture: Ukrainian break-dancer passes national selection in France, Oleg Sentsov\u2019s theatrical play premiered at PEN International in Lviv<\/strong><\/p>\n Ukrainian wins a break-dancing competition in France. <\/strong>Ukrainian Roman Masyk, a\u00a0native of Kolomyya, Ivano-Frankivsk region, won the national break-dancing competition in Paris. He then took part in the international break-dance competition in the Netherlands. Roman is back to his native town where he trains children. Here is the video<\/a> of his award-winning performance. Sports: Invictus Games, World Military Wrestling Championship, and success of Paralympians<\/strong><\/p>\n Ukrainian army sportsmen claim nine medals at World Military Wrestling Championship.<\/strong> According to the press service<\/a> of the Ministry of Defence, Ukrainian army sportsmen won three gold, three silver and three bronze medals at the Championship in Lithuania.<\/p>\n First medal at Invictus Games. <\/strong>29-year-old officer of the National Police of\u00a0Ukraine Serhii Torchynskyi (from Lutsk) has claimed the first medal for the Ukraine\u2019s National Team in\u00a0Toronto (Canada). This is the first medal<\/a>ever for the Ukrainian team that takes part in the Invictus Games for the first time.<\/p>\n Ukrainian Paralympic Football Team won the World Cup. The Ukrainian Paralympic football team defeated the Iranian team in the final of the World Championship in Argentina. This was reported by Valeriy Sushkevych, the head of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine, on his Facebook page<\/a>. Ukrainians reached the final by defeating the Russian team in the semi-final.<\/p>\n
\nCivilians. <\/strong>According to Alexander Hug, Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, 68 civilians<\/a> have been killed and 319 wounded this year in Donbas. It is 18 percent more than in the respective period last year.
\nResidential areas<\/a> came under fire during the militants\u2019 attacks upon the Ukrainian troops\u2019 positions near Zaitseve-Pivnichne (Donetsk sector) and Hranitne (Mariupol sector) on September 22 at 21.30.
\nOSCE. <\/strong>OSCE mission monitors registered a military camp with arranged firing positions and trenches outside the occupied Luhansk. Works in the camp are still underway near Dovhe village, reports<\/a> OSCE.
\nAccording to Alexander Hug<\/a>, the mission plans to install new CCTV cameras for surveillance purposes in Donbas, namely near Pishchevyk, Maiorsk and at the control point in Maryinka as well as in the northern part of the disengagement site in Stanytsia Luhanska area close to the Prince Ihor monument.<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cLPR\u201d to install over 100 monuments to militants. <\/strong>\u201cLPR\u201d militant group headed by Igor Plotnitsky plans to install<\/a> over 100 monuments to the killed militants by the end of 2017. The \u201cMemory\u201d program foresees the \u201cinstallation of monuments to the unknown defenders of Donbass as well as to those of them whose families will not be able to take care of their graves in a due manner because of objective reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nPoroshenko\u2019s take. <\/strong>\u201cWe had a full-fledged, detailed meeting with the US President Donald Trump. We got firm support on the part of the US, the support that also concerns our sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of the country,\u201d said President Poroshenko. \u201cParticular emphasis was made on our cooperation in the military-technical sector. (\u2026) The President gave clear orders so that we are able to expand our cooperation. There was also a particular focus on the economic cooperation\u201d. \u201cI am fully content with the negotiation results,\u201d Poroshenko stated.
\nTrump\u2019s take. <\/strong>The President of the United States Donald Trump called the meeting with the President of Ukraine \u201cwonderful<\/a>\u201d.
\nUN peacekeepers in Donbas. <\/strong>According to President Poroshenko, the US completely supported Ukraine\u2019s vision on the deployment of the UN peacekeeping mission to Donbas<\/a>. According to the Ukrainian position, the UN mandate has to cover the entire uncontrolled area of Donbas including the part of the Ukrainian-Russian state border that Ukraine does not control at the moment. The vision is severely criticized by the Kremlin. To remind, the prospects of deploying a UN peacekeeping mission to Donbas<\/a> were the main theme of the intervention that the Ukrainian President made at the meeting of the UN Security Council and at the General Assembly session.
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\nCurrently, eight medical information systems (MIS) have been connected to eHealth and 367 health institutions have been registered. Many health institutions have already introduced \u201cPolyclinic without queues\u201d system. “We see that as many as 30-35% of patients make an appointment to see the doctor via the Internet,” said Artur Verba, one of the developers of the service. According to him, the contribution of “online patients” in the hospitals comprises from 80 to 90%, which means that people are ready for innovations.<\/p>\n
\nCommunities start to more actively use<\/a> the cooperation mechanism, which enables them to address common problems at the local level through pooling resources and joining efforts of several local councils. In total, 458 communities are cooperating in the areas of housing and utilities, public services and amenities, fire safety, education, healthcare, social security, etc.
\nThe state supports decentralization financially. So, as of September 20<\/a>, the commission at the Ministry of Regional Development approved 1,587 infrastructure projects of the united communities. These projects are to be implemented by the end of this year with the appropriate state subvention. The total cost of the approved projects is almost UAH 1.3 billion.<\/p>\n
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\nUkrainian premiere of the play written by the prisoner of conscience Oleg Sentsov. <\/strong>\u201cNumbers\u201d play by Oleg Sentsov<\/a>, the Ukrainian film director imprisoned in Russia, was staged in Ukraine for the first time in the framework of the PEN International in Lviv on September 19. Sentsov wrote the play in the Russian prison. It comes as his first playwright experience. \u201cNumbers\u201d were staged for the first time at the Moscow-based \u201cTeatr.doc\u201d in November 2014. The characters of the play have no names but numbers instead: from 1 to 10. Other characters of the play also include judges, the main of them is called Zero. Here\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0video of the play<\/a>. Note: in 2015 Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in the maximum-security colony under the terrorism charges. Ukrainian and international human rights defenders consider Sentsov a political prisoner.<\/p>\n
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