Today in Ukraine in three road accidents killed 18 people.
Around 5 am on 289 km of the highway Kiev-Odessa, near the village of Krivoye Ozero in the Mykolayiv region, there was a collision of a Volkswagen trip minibus that was moving along the Odessa-Gomel route, with the Belarusian registration, and a truck that was on the right side the carriageway due to a malfunction.
Due to the accident, the driver and four passengers of the minibus died on the spot, another 12 passengers with bodily injuries of varying severity were taken to a medical facility.
Another traffic accident involving a shuttle bus and a heavy truck occurred 10. 40 on 127 km of the highway Kiev-Chop, near. Deepness of Zhytomyr region. 10 people were killed, 10 - injured of varying severity.
In the Khmelnitsky region at the entrance to the village of Pribuzhskoe there was a traffic accident involving the IVECO truck and the Volkswagen Golf car, which killed a family of three and injured another child.
*** The United States of America declined the proposal to hold a referendum on the territory of the Ordo.
"The administration does not consider supporting a referendum in eastern Ukraine," said Garret Marchis, spokesman for the US National Security Council. "It would be illegal to organize a so-called" referendum "on territory beyond Ukraine's control.".
*** Ambassador of Italy summoned to Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. The diplomat will have to explain himself for his vice-premier Matteo Salvini. He called the annexation of the Crimea legitimate, and the Revolution of Virtue - fake.
*** "Let's protect America from Russian interference". Leading Democrats in the House of Representatives proposed a package of measures designed to prevent Russian interference in elections and other acts of aggression against the US and its allies.
*** The Security Service of Ukraine began checking the actions of officials of PJSC "Dniproazot", which caused a deficit in the country of liquid chlorine, the main reagent for water purification to the state of drinking water, and the search for suppliers of imported chlorine.
*** The third block of the South-Ukrainian NPP was the first power unit in Ukraine, which operates only on fuel assemblies of the Japanese-American company Westinghouse.
Before that, in the reactor in a mixed cycle there was fuel for a Russian company TVEL. By 2020, it is planned to completely transfer to the fuel from Westinghouse the second unit of SUNPP and four power units of Zaporizhzhya NPP.
*** The court elected a measure of restraint to the chairman of the Novobavar regional administration of Kharkov Tatyana Tsibulnik - round-the-clock house arrest until August 21. In addition, the court considers the petition of the prosecutor's office about the dismissals of Cibulnik from his post.