Tyzhden (Week) is reporting that the government has allocated 140 million hryvnyas ($6.6 million) for "sherrifs" in villages. So, naturally, Chuck Norris:
The presidential administration failed to respond to the first electronic petition, which received 25,000 signatures, on time.
The petition, asking for a constitutional right to bear arms, has been under consideration since September 4. According to law, the answer was supposed to be published online yesterday.
"I have to admit that the internal processes didn't work and commitments were not fulfilled. One must know how to recognize one's own mistakes and work to correct them. I personally apologize to everyone who signed the petition for delaying the response,” the deputy head of the presidential administration, Dmytro Shymkiv, wrote on Facebook.
No Ukrainian fighter had been killed or wounded over the past 24 hours in Donbas, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said. That marks two consecutive days without losses for Ukraine, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
However, the military press service noted nine instances of cease-fire violations by the pro-Russian separatists -- only the early hours of September 23 were quiet.
The "Donetsk People's Republic" hasn’t reported any cease-fire violations by the Ukrainian side, but the Luhansk People's Republic" reported two.
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):
An excerpt:
Experts from the left and right alike warn that cooperation with Russia on Syria can have potentially disastrous consequences for the U.S., but too many Americans still don’t understand how closely linked these two headline conflicts are, and American policy has yet to confront the reality that Syria and Ukraine are part of the same mission for Russia—the destruction of the post-WWII architecture of the West. To achieve this goal, Russia has pursued a clear policy of disruption, chaos and destabilization --in Ukraine and in the Middle East -- in order to force the West to have to partner with Russia to “resolve” the crises it has created.