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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 an news item from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

Gunshots Fired As Brawl Breaks Out At Town Council Session Ukraine

DNIPRO, Ukraine -- Police in the town of Nikopol in Ukraine's eastern Dnipropetrovsk region are investigating violence and gunfire that erupted at a town council meeting.

Nikopol police told RFE/RL that activists of a nationalist group Right Sector entered the building during a meeting on May 4 and clashed with council members.

According to the police, a council member fired two pistol shots but nobody was injured by the gunfire.

Police told RFE/RL that the Right Sector members tried to stop the session for unspecified reasons, adding that an investigation on suspicion of the "disruption of public order" had been opened.

Images from the scene showed Nikopol Mayor Andriy Fysak with a green antiseptic known as "zelyonka" that had been splashed on his face and a council member Oleksandr Rybakov, who appeared to have been doused with Kefir, a type of fermented milk drink.

Ukrainian media reports said that Rybakov fired the pistol shots.

On January 31, Rybakov survived an apparent assassination attempt after an unknown individual threw two grenades at him late in the evening in the street.

The 57-year-old Rybakov was hospitalized at the time with multiple shrapnel injuries. The attacker was not found. Investigations were launched into an "attempted assassination."

With reporting by UNIAN
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