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Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says a second member of Ukraine’s security forces injured outside parliament on August 31 has died. (AFP, Interfax) MORE TO FOLLOW...
Here are some more details of the second guardsman's death in Kyiv:
A second member of Ukraine’s National Guard has died from injuries following clashes outside parliament.
"Dmitry Slastikov "died from injuries after yesterday's grenade explosion," Interior Minister Arsen Avakov wrote on Twitter on September 1.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk blamed ultranationalists for the violence, which also saw more than 140 people hospitalized.
In an address on live television, Yatsenyuk said the right-wing protesters were "worse" than the Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine who have been locked in a civil war with the government since last year, because their violence comes "under the guise of patriotism."
World powers, including the United States, Germany, Russia, and European Union, also condemned the violence, and urged Ukrainian legislators to keep up their work decentralizing the government through measures that implement the Minsk peace accord.
(AFP, Interfax)
Here's a Ukrainian National Guard Facebook post announcing the death of another guardsman:
All eyes seem to be on Kyiv today, but here is a map of the latest military situation in the restive east, courtesy of Ukraine's Defense Ministry:
