Daily Digest: Top news of Wednesday, Aug. 15 - Aug. 15, 2018

Political prisoner and Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov described his condition as pre-critical during a meeting with Russian human rights activist and journalist Zoya Svetova, who visited him in a penal colony in Labytnangi, RTVI has reported.
Kyiv ranked 118th in the annual Global Liveability Index 2018, released by the UK magazine The Economist on Aug. 13, with Ukraine’s capital the highest climber in the ranking, moving up 13 places since last year.
Representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine have recorded the presence of 18 towed howitzers and nearly 775 ammunition crates in non-government controlled areas in the Donbas, the mission said in a report.
The European Union has decided to issue 15.5 million euros in budget assistance to Ukraine for the reform of the public administration sector, the press service of the EU Delegation to Ukraine has reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019, authorizing $250 million for the provision of security assistance to Ukraine, including $50 million for lethal weapons.
A Belarusian citizen who fought with the Russia-led Somali battalion in Donbas and took part in the capture of Donetsk International Airport was arrested when he reentered Ukraine and has been remanded in custody for two months, Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office spokesman Andriy Lysenko has said.
Ukrainian Irynka Hromotska has been named one of 10 photographers of the 2018 Rising Stars of Photography program organized by computer software company Adobe.