European Commission transferred 250 million euros to Ukraine as the last part of the first 610-million-euro Macro-Financial Assistance.

According to Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland, process of Ukraine's decentralization is one of the key issues in the Minsk agreements.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted about the dialogue between Russia and the United States that Moscow was not the first to impose sanctions or fold bilateral dialogue and "can only regret that Washington started it all."

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations, with SMM patrols restricted from moving freely in government-controlled areas around Mariupol and in areas under “Lugansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”) control.* Fighting was of reduced intensity around Donetsk airport and nearby villages, and Shyrokyne was generally calm during the day. Heavy weapons continued to be moved on both sides of the contact line. Some civilians in Donetsk region tell the SMM of their urgent need for basic supplies and services.

Roundup of Novorossia for April 21-22, 2015
1. Foreign mercenaries were spotted in Donbass.
2. The OSCE: The situation escalated in the east of Ukraine again.
3. Saakashvili visited Donbass.
4. One of the National Guard chiefs suspected of working for the militia.
5. The Prosecutor General's Office and the SBU detained three former employees of the MIA special forces "Berkut".

In a frantic interview for Italian daily newspaper la Repubblica, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk demonstrated that he appears to be losing his grip on reality, stating that Russia is an aggressive state seeking to invade Europe and 'destabilize the planet', and simultaneously a weak country with a slew of unsolvable problems.

Eduard Basurin, a deputy commander of DPR militia, said that a special unit, consisting of 300-500 members of radical nationalist organizations, was formed in the Lviv region to carry out sabotage missions on the territory of self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed on the need for the full implementation of the 'Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements,' according to the statement of the United Nations.

Commenting on a Polish MEP's recent statement that the snipers shooting indiscriminately at police and protesters during last year's Maidan Revolution were trained in Poland, Russian Foreign Ministry human rights ombudsman Konstantin Dolgov stated that the truth about the tragedy is finally beginning to emerge.

The Opposition Bloc has drafted a package of laws that are aimed at normalizing the situation in Donbas, Boyko said