Ukrainian military says soldier killed, three wounded:
The Ukrainian military says that one soldier has been killed and three wounded over the previous 24 hours in the country's east despite a six-week-old cease-fire with Russian-backed rebels.
Colonel Andriy Lysenko, spokesman of Ukrainian armed forces fighting the separatists, said on March 30 neither tanks nor artillery were used over that period.
But he said the situation remained tense in the towns of Shyrokyne and Hranitne, near the key government-held city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region, and in the Luhansk region town of Tryokhizbenka.
He said rebels forces fired at Ukrainian units in or near those towns.
More than 6,000 people have been killed since April 2014 in the conflict between government forces and the rebels, who hold parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including their capitals.
Fighting has eased under a cease-fire agreement signed in February, but prospects for a settlement are clouded by disputes over the European-brokered deal. (with UNIAN and Interfax)
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Former Kyiv Police Officials Wanted Over Maidan Crackdown
Ukrainian prosecutors have added two former senior Kyiv police officials to a list of suspects wanted over a deadly crackdown on "Euromaidan" protesters in the capital in February 2014, before Viktor Yanukovych was ousted as president.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office said on March 31 that former acting Kyiv police chief Valeriy Mazan and his deputy, Petro Fedchuk, are suspected of organizing the dispersal of protesters on Kyiv's Independence Square on February 18-19, 2014.
It said that 13 people were killed and 130 injured on those dates as a result of the "unlawful" use of force.
The whereabouts of Mazan and Fedchuk are unknown.
More than 100 people, including 17 security officers, were killed during a crackdown on the pro-European protests between February 18 and 21, 2014.
Nine protesters died in the weeks that preceded the clashes.