Ukrainian soldiers eliminate 2 tanks, 3 APCs and 2 trucks with weapons of terrorists – Tymchuk

According to operative data of “Information Resistance” groups, a number of combat clashes of ATO forces with terrorists took place in antiterrorist operation area. 4 Ukrainian soldiers perished and 31 soldiers got injured during the operation.

Head of the center of military-political studies Dmytro Tymchuk wrote this in social network.

During the combat clashes, according to our data” 4 Ukrainian soldiers died. 31 soldiers got injuries.

There is no accurate information about losses of terrorists.

Tanks leave Snizhne for Horlivka, get resistance

Russian tanks that were sent to Snizhne on Thursday have moved to Horlivka, but a "warm reception" was staged for them there.

Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said this at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

He said that immediately after the tanks crossed the Ukrainian-Russian border they arrived in Snizhne, where two of them left for Horlivka, where they were stopped by the Ukrainian army.

"The tanks were attacked by our Armed Forces. The fighting is going on. I cannot announce its result, but part of this column [the tanks that broke through the border] has been destroyed," he said.

According to Avakov, a column of three tanks passed through the Dyakovo border checkpoint that was earlier seized by terrorists.

Poroshenko swears in as President of Ukraine

Ukraine’s President-elect Petro Poroshenko at a solemn session of the Verkhovna Rada took the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people on the Peresopnytsia Gospel in Kyiv on Saturday.

"I, Petro Poroshenko, elected the President of Ukraine by the will of the people, taking this high office, solemnly swear allegiance to Ukraine," he said.

Thereafter Poroshenko received the certificate of taking the office of President and official symbols of the head of state – the Sign of the President of Ukraine, Seals and the Mace. Immediately thereafter, the President signed the oath and gave it to Chairman of the Constitutional Court Yuriy Baulin.

Central Election Commission Chairman Mykhailo Okhendovsky handed the Credentials of the President of Ukraine over to Poroshenko, and the Ukrainian National Honoured Academic Choir named after Veriovka performed the Prayer for Ukraine.