Internally displaced Ukrainians are protesting in front of the Ukrainian parliament demanding their right to vote in October local elections.
The protesters set up a voting booth with the sign “No entry for internally displaced.”
Currently there are three bills designed to protect the voting rights of internally displaced. The protesters are demanding that parliament vote on them.
The voting will take place on October 25, 2015. The peculiarity of the local elections lies in the fact that only citizens of certain territorial units have the right to vote.
According to representative of Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Mykhaylo Chaplyha, at least 1.5 million people are deprived of this right, having been forced to leave their homes due to Russian aggression in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
In other news, a public toilet with a counter for visitors was spotted in the western city of Lviv.
The counter, as photographed by Ukrainian journalist Vitaliy Moroz, states that since its installment on June 6, 2013, more than 4.6 mill people have visited it -- 5,112 just in one day.
"There are signs that the pressure on Russian authorities concerning Ukrainian hostages will continue to increase in the coming months. The point will be pressed home if not in 2015, than in 2016," tweeted Ilya Novikov, lawyer of imprisoned Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry considers 11 citizens "political prisoners" in Russia.
Specialists from the Ukrainian armed forces discovered and neutralized a minefield near the village of Hnutove in the Donetsk region, the Defense Ministry's press service says.
"Specialists with professional training planted the mines. The field was discovered due to certain features and mistakes of enemy mine layers. It is noteworthy that this 'hellish field' was a 'combination.' Along with antitank mines, land mines, which are prohibited by international conventions, were planted," reads the statement.
The ministry emphasized that Ukraine's armed forces don't possess such weapons. "Our country has long acceded to international conventions," wrote the officials.
All in all, Ukrainian specialists defused 14 mines of different configurations.