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A portrait of slain separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko hangs outside the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on September 2.
A portrait of slain separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko hangs outside the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on September 2.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of September 3, 2018. You can find it here.

-- Tens of thousands of people gathered on September 2 in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to mourn a top rebel leader who was recently killed in a bomb attack.

-- Prominent Ukrainian historian Mykola Shityuk has been found dead in his home city of Mykolaiv, police said on September 2.​

-- Ukraine says it has imprisoned the man it accused of being recruited by Russia’s secret services to organize a murder plot against self-exiled Russian reporter and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko.

-- Ukraine and Russia are trading blame for the killing of a top separatist leader in eastern Ukraine.

-- Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the head of the head of the breakaway separatist entity known as the Donetsk People’s Republic, was killed in an explosion at a cafe in Donetsk on August 31.

-- The United States is ready to widen arms supplies to Ukraine to help build up the country's naval and air defense forces in the face of continuing Russian support for eastern separatists, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine told The Guardian.

-- The spiritual head of the worldwide Orthodox Church in Istanbul has hosted Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill for talks on Ukraine's bid to split from the Russian church, a move strongly opposed by Moscow.

*Time stamps on the blog refer to local time in Ukraine

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Here's a Saakashvili update from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

Saakashvili Says Ukraine Confirms He's In The Country Legally

Former Georgian President and Odesa's ex-Governor Mikheil Saakashvili speaks to his supporters during a rally outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv on November 7.
Former Georgian President and Odesa's ex-Governor Mikheil Saakashvili speaks to his supporters during a rally outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv on November 7.

Mikheil Saakashvili says he has received confirmation from the Ukrainian authorities that his stay in the country is legal.

"Today I finally received a document from the Migration Service, which certifies that I am legally in the territory of Ukraine. Of course, I'm not satisfied with this, but I am struggling through the court to restore my citizenship," the leader of the Movement of New Forces political party said in a post on Facebook on November 7.

In 2015, President Petro Poroshenko appointed Saakashvili governor of Ukraine's Odesa region, and the former Georgian president surrendered his Georgian citizenship in order to take the post.

However, Saakashvili resigned in November 2016, saying that his reform efforts had been blocked by Poroshenko's allies.

In June 2017, Poroshenko revoked Saakashvili's Ukrainian citizenship, saying that he had withheld information during the application procedure.

Saaksashvili reentered Ukraine in September, even though his Ukrainian passport was invalid.

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Arnie says he's going to pay Kyiv's mayor a visit:

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Here's an update on Pavlo Hryb from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

Russia Denies House Arrest To Ukrainian Teenager Facing Terrorism-Related Charges

Nineteen-year-old Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Hryb in a Russian court last month.
Nineteen-year-old Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Hryb in a Russian court last month.

A Russian court has denied a house arrest request from a Ukrainian teenager held in custody on terrorism-related charges.

The Krasnodar Regional Court on November 7 upheld a lower court's decision to keep Pavlo Hryb in pretrial detention until January 4.

Hryb, 19, went missing in late August after he traveled to Belarus to meet a woman he met online in what his relatives believe was a trap set by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

The FSB subsequently informed Kyiv that Hryb was held in a detention center in Russia on suspicion of abetting terrorism, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Hryb's father, Ihor Hryb, has said his son was openly critical of Russian interference in Ukraine on social media.

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maryana Betsa protested Hryb's continued detention in a message on Twitter.

"There is no law in Russia... A human life does not mean anything [there]. We demand that Russia releases illegally detained Ukrainian P. Hryb," Betsa wrote.

Kyiv and Moscow have been locked in a standoff over Russia's illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in March 2014 and its backing of separatists in a war that has killed more than 10,000 people in eastern Ukraine since April 2014.

With reporting by censor.net.ua
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