Rinat Akhmetov, one of Ukraine's wealthiest people, said on April 14 that he will defend his interests in Ukrtelecom, one of the country's major telecom companies, one day after a Kyiv court froze Akhmetov's shares, AFP reports. Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko said on April 13 that Akhmetov had acquired his Ukrtelecom shares for a nominal price from the government of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.
Alexander Hug, the deputy chief monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, said at a press conference in Kyiv that there was a 17 percent decrease in the number of cease-fire violations in Donbas this week as compared to the previous week. He said there was just one civilian fatality this week compared to six the previous week.
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The head of the OSCE monitors in Donbas tried unsuccessfully to get an agreement for a cease-fire during the Eastern weekend:
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