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13:53 22.2.2015

13:54 22.2.2015

13:57 22.2.2015

Reuters quotes from a Ukrainian regional prosecutor's online statement:

"According to eyewitness accounts the explosive device was thrown from a passing car," the statement said.

There are rumors, including the usually reliable @kevinrothrock, that "suspects" in the Kharkiv bombing have already been detained.

13:57 22.2.2015

13:58 22.2.2015

Choice to use the term "our guys" certainly a bizarre one.

13:59 22.2.2015

14:01 22.2.2015

Is it just us, or does Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's Twitter feed seem unfathomably oblivious to the tragedy in Kharkiv?

14:05 22.2.2015

Via AFP:

Regional prosecutor Yuri Danilchenko said two people died, one of them a police officer, revising down an earlier toll of three killed.

"It was a homemade bomb packed with shrapnel, put in a plastic bag and hidden in snow by the side of the road," he told reporters.

14:06 22.2.2015

14:12 22.2.2015

This is the Facebook post by the Ukrainian Security Council's Markian Lubkivskiy, with the auto-translate below it:

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