Denis Pushilin also called unacceptable Poroshenko’s statement about intention to regain control over the Donetsk airport and fight for restoring Ukraine "to the bitter end"

Roundup of Novorossia for May 14-15, 2015
1. The situation in the DPR and LPR over the past day.
2. Zakharchenko: DPR will build partnerships with Kiev.
3. Ukraine. Three weeks before the default.
4. The US Senate supported the allocation of military assistance to Ukraine.
5. "To the doctor": The Federation Council advised Poroshenko to check vision and hearing.

Ukraine's security forces have shut down an Odessa-based local media outlet and arrested its employees as part of a growing media crackdown.

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.* Fighting continued around Donetsk airport. In Shyrokyne, the SMM observed a decrease in the intensity of the fighting. The SMM visited a Right Sector camp in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

According to Yatsenyuk, the Anti-Corruption Bureau should be allowed to carry out investigations against state officials if they provide insufficient information on their property in tax declarations

Russian diplomat Dolgov reminded that UN estimates the number of internally displaced people in Ukraine to stand at around 1.2 million

Speaking with Radio Sputnik Israeli publicist Avigdor Eskin commented on US foreign policy, Washington’s stance towards Ukraine and the Ukrainian crisis in general.

"There is a risk that the fire of conflict may flare again, and we should prevent this," the French president stressed

The situation continues to remain tense in Novorossia. Ukrainian army continues to conduct harassing attacks on Donbass settlements, mainly at night. On May 14 local shootings and fighting took place in the traditional, hot, sectors of the front: at Shirokino, on track Bakhmutka and near Stanitsa Luganskaya, and in Donetsk suburbs.