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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.

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In case you missed it yesterday (from the Crimea Desk of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service):

Semena 'Wants To Return To Media' After 'Separatism' Charge Expunged

RFE/RL contributor Mykola Semena was barred from working as a journalist or leaving the Crimean peninsula after a court in the Russian-controlled territory convicted him of separatism in 2017. But authorities have now expunged his criminal record and he is again free to work and travel.

Semena 'Wants To Return To Media' After 'Separatism' Charge Expunged
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Another item from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

RFE/RL Correspondent's Car Set On Fire In Lviv

The burned-out car of RFE/RL journalist Halyna Tereshchuk in Lviv.
The burned-out car of RFE/RL journalist Halyna Tereshchuk in Lviv.

KYIV -- The car of an RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv was set on fire overnight on January 29-30 -- an arson attack which Deputy Interior Minister Anton Herashchenko said could have been ordered by someone.

Halyna Tereshchuk, who has been working for RFE/RL since 2000, said she suspected the attack was linked to her professional activities..

"We think the crime was ordered, that somebody hired someone to conduct it," Herashchenko said to RFE/RL, adding that the police were doing "everything to find both the perpetrators and those who ordered the attack."

The National Police department in Lviv said earlier in the day that a probe had been launched into the "deliberate destruction of the journalist's property."

The Ukrainian unit of rights group Freedom House condemned the torching of not only Tereschchuk’s vehicle, but on the same day, the car of Andriy Lukin -- an activist in Zaporizhzhya.

"We are outraged by the fires…and call on law enforcement agencies to investigate these incidents effectively," Freedom House Ukraine said on Facebook.

The group stated that "arson or other methods of destruction of vehicles and property are becoming increasingly used as a means to pressure active people in Ukraine."

It noted that there were 11 cases last year of property belonging to activists being destroyed and "in almost all cases, the perpetrators were not found and punished."

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A Twitter thread from an investigative reporter who writes for Bellingcat:

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