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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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From our news desk:

Police Officer, Attacker Killed In Shootout Near City Council Building In Ukraine's Kharkiv

Investigators at the scene of the shooting incident in Kharkiv on August 20.
Investigators at the scene of the shooting incident in Kharkiv on August 20.

Two people, including a police officer, have been killed in a shootout near the building of the Kharkiv City Council in Ukraine's east, national police say.

According to an August 20 national police statement, an unidentified man opened fire at a group of police officers overnight, wounding one officer who later died in hospital.

Police returned fire and killed the perpetrator, who had wounded a city council security guard before the arrival of the police.

The wounded security officer is a stable condition in hospital, the statement says.

An investigation were launched into the incident, the statement said. There was no immediate indication as to why the man had opened fire.

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Overly cynical?

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Good morning, We'll get the live blog rolling today with a few tweets that caught our eye overnight:

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We are now closing the live blog for today, but we'll be back again tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then, you can keep up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.

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