{"id":90523,"date":"2018-10-29T17:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=69337"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:20:06","slug":"69337-weekly-update-ukraine-77-october-22-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/69337-weekly-update-ukraine-77-october-22-28","title":{"rendered":"The Sakharov prize, Azov Sea, richest Ukrainians and more \u2013 Weekly Update on Ukraine #77, October 22 \u2013 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

Situation in the combat zone<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last week Russia-backed militants made a series of precision attacks upon the positions of Ukraine\u2019s Joint Forces in the area of Stanytsia Luhanska, Avdiivka, Maryinka, Starohantivka, Pavlopil, Vodiane and Hnutove.<\/p>\n

Russian proxies fired upon the Ukrainian troops\u2019 strongholds near Avdiivka using 82-mm mortars, grenade launchers and small arms. They also fired upon the Joint Forces\u2019 positions outside Pavlopil and Vodiane from automatic and hand-held grenade launchers as well as from small arms.<\/p>\n

On October 25, Ukrainian troops\u2019 positions near Svitlodarsk came under fire from the weapons mounted on infantry fighting vehicles and 120-mm mortars. Same weapons alongside 82-mm mortars were used in a hostile attack on Joint Forces\u2019 strongholds near Luhanske and Avdiivka.<\/p>\n

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Situation in the Azov Sea: the European Parliament adopts a resolution<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On October 25, the European Parliament<\/a>\u00a0passed a resolution condemning Russia\u2019s actions violating the international law in the Azov Sea. The document calls on EU member states to clearly state that the targeted sanctions against Russia will be reinforced in case the standoff in the Azov Sea escalates further. One of the paragraphs of the resolution suggests introducing the post of the EU Special Envoy for Crimea and Donbas while the area of responsibility of the incumbent would also cover the Azov Sea. The European Parliament also \u201cdeplores the illegal extraction of oil and gas resources by the Russian Federation from Ukrainian territory; highlights the possible danger of Russia seizing existing Ukrainian oil and gas fields in the Sea of Azov once it achieves its aim of transforming it into an internal lake within the Russian Federation.\u201d The full text of the resolution is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Sakharov prize goes to Oleg Sentsov<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The first Ukrainian laureate of the prize.\u00a0<\/strong>Ukrainian film director<\/a>\u00a0and Kremlin\u2019s prisoner Oleg Sentsov was awarded the Sakharov Prize \u2013 the European Parliament\u2019s annual prize \u201cfor Freedom of Thought\u201d. Sentsov has become the first-ever Ukraine representative to receive the prize. Oleg Sentsov was nominated for the Sakharov\u2019s Prize by the European People\u2019s Party, the largest faction in the European Parliament.<\/p>\n

President Poroshenko\u2019s comment. <\/strong>The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko<\/a>\u00a0is convinced that the Sakharov Prize awarded by the European Parliament to Oleg Sentsov illegally imprisoned in the Russian Federation, brings closer his liberation. \u201cGrateful to the European Parliament for an important decision \u2013 to award the prestigious Sakharov Prize to Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov. (\u2026) I am sure that this decision by the European Parliament will bring close the moment of Oleg Sentsov\u2019s liberation,\u201d President Poroshenko said.<\/p>\n

Commentary of Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry. <\/strong>Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov<\/a>\u00a0will play the same role in the history of the Russian Federation as the academician Andrei Sakharov played in the history of the USSR, Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin is convinced. \u201cAfter Oleg Sentsov ended his hunger strike, the Russian Federation was hoping to quiet the issue and bring this emotional wave down. However it got quite a different spin: at first the Polish prize, and now such a recognition as the Sakharov Prize 2018. Sentsov will become for Russia what Sakharov became for the USSR,\u201d Minister Klimkin wrote on Facebook last Thurday.<\/p>\n

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Richest Ukrainians: who are they?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ukrainian media \u201cNovoe Vremya\u201d (New Time) released a ranking of 100 wealthiest Ukrainians. These richest individuals of Ukraine accumulate USD 37,5 billion in their possessions, that is an equivalent to a half of the state debt. If counted jointly their assets have increased their growing speed from 33 per cent recorded last year to this year\u2019s 43 per cent. The media notes that the assets are growing 12 times faster than Ukraine\u2019s GDP. Rinat Akhmetov stays on top of the ranking. Resulting from the increased demand on metals his assets made a one-time increase by 76 per cent or USD 5,3 billion. Viktor Pinchuk was ranked second. His assets never got back to what they used to be prior to 2013 but did increase by 87 per cent. The third position was assigned to Vadym Novynskyi who owns Smart-Holding, the company holding a 25-per cent share of Akhmetov\u2019s Metinvest. Petro Poroshenko was ranked sixth. This year his assets grew by 10 per cent and reached USD 1,1 billion.<\/p>\n

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Opinion polling: what Ukrainians think of Donbas<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a recent opinion poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KMIS), 30,4 per cent of the interviewed said that establishing peace in Donbas generally depends on the Ukrainian authorities; 16,5 per cent consider it lying within the responsibility of the Russian authorities; 10,4 per cent attribute it to the responsibility of the so-called \u201cDPR\u201d and \u201cLPR\u201d; 10,3 per cent \u2013 to \u201chaving the politicians\u2019 interests satisfied at war\u201d; 7,6 per cent \u2013 to the western states. When asked about the politicians or opinion leaders whose statements find respondents\u2019 approval at most, 10,7 per cent of respondents named Yuliya Tymoshenko; 10,6 per cent Anatoliy Hrytsenko; 8,8 per cent the Radical Party leader Oleh Lyashko; 8,1 per cent singer and civil society actor Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. Ukrainians perceive Viktor Medvedchuk as a crony of the President of Russia Putin who is godfather to his daughter (35 per cent of the interviewed).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Sport: Ukrainian tennis player becomes a WTA champion<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina triumphed at the season-ending Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals in Singapore. The Ukrainian beat US athlete Sloane Stephens in three sets scoring 3:6, 6:2 and 6:2. Svitolina won the final WTA tournament for the first time claiming the biggest title in her career. The tennis player takes part in it for the second time \u2013 in 2017 she did not make it out of the group.<\/p>\n

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