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Ukrainian Security Service officers detain Major General Valeriy Shaytanov on suspicion of high treason and terrorism in Kyiv on April 14.
Ukrainian Security Service officers detain Major General Valeriy Shaytanov on suspicion of high treason and terrorism in Kyiv on April 14.

Ukraine Live Blog: Zelenskiy's Challenges (Archive)

An archive of our recent live blogging of the crisis in Ukraine's east.

09:57 17.9.2019

Good morning!

09:58 17.9.2019

Two news stories from overnight:

-- The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on September 16 “expressed concern” over the possibility a former Ukrainian police general who confessed to the gruesome murder of a journalist may have his life prison sentence commuted.

-- A 28-year-old man who fought alongside Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine was on September 16 found dead with seven gunshot wounds on a stairwell inside a multi-story residential building in the Donetsk region city of Mariupol.

10:01 17.9.2019

Another developing story we're following:

Former Ukrainian Central Banker's House In Flames Former Ukrainian Central Banker's House In Flames
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Former Ukrainian Central Banker's House In Flames

The house of former Ukrainian central bank chief Valeria Hontareva burned down overnight from September 16-17. Hontareva, who sent this video of the blaze to RFE/RL, reported a week earlier that her home was raided by the police. She said on September 9 she was considering requesting political asylum in the United Kingdom due to pressure on her from Ukrainian authorities.

10:03 17.9.2019

10:48 17.9.2019

Latest from Kyiv on the fire at Valeria Hontareva's home:

KYIV -- The former governor of the National Bank of Ukraine says her home outside of Kyiv was burned to the ground overnight in an apparent arson.

Speaking to RFE/RL by phone from her home in London, Valeria Hontareva said that someone had thrown a Molotov cocktail at her residence in the village of Horenychi, setting it ablaze in the early morning hours of September 17.

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