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*. The SMM observed continuous ceasefire violations at and around the Donetsk airport. The situation around Shyrokyne was relatively calm. The SMM continued to facilitate repairs at a major water pipeline between Maiorsk and Horlivka. The SMM observed the continuation of rallies in several cities by Right Sector (Pravyi Sektor) members and supporters, all of which were peaceful.

Ukraine teeters on the brink of a new conflict, this time in the West of the country: Right Sector nationalists tossed a challenge to the authorities, nearly declaring a war against them, Der Spiegel said. The EU is afraid that the conflict may spread to Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.

Roundup of the day for July 15-16, 2015
1. The situation over the last day in the DPR and the LPR.
2. Poroshenko ready to give the DPR and LPR special status.
3. All the armed people in Ukraine to be equated to terrorists.
4. EC regarded as a threat the refusal to transit gas through Ukraine.

 
According to the mayor’s office, the elderly people received shrapnel wounds at about 21:00

The Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday ratified a memorandum with Germany on a 500-million-euro loan to rebuild eastern Ukraine’s infrastructure.

Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin said Wednesday that Russian experts had been excluded from MH17 crash investigation and only "occasionally" were given some information about the probe.

The Right Sector nationalist movement has been actively used by the Ukrainian government during its offensive against militia forces in the east. The war in Donbass can be ended only when illegal armed groups, especially the Right Sector, are disbanded, Andrej Hunko, a Bundestag member from the Left Party, thinks.

Poroshenko has submitted a proposal on constitutional amendments on the special status of Donbass to Ukraine’s parliament.

An asylum request from a group of ethnic Poles living in Ukraine’s war-ravaged Donbass has been turned down by Warsaw, a Ukrainian newspaper wrote on Wednesday.

Criminal charges have been brought against two Right Sector radicals accused of creating a criminal organization and staging a terrorist attack by a group of persons acting on previous concert

Kiev authorities are in panic as activities of the "Right Sector" are out of control and may form a "second front," which will mobilize its forces against the current government, Sueddeutsche Zeitung wrote.