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A portrait of slain separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko hangs outside the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on September 2.
A portrait of slain separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko hangs outside the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on September 2.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of September 3, 2018. You can find it here.

-- Tens of thousands of people gathered on September 2 in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to mourn a top rebel leader who was recently killed in a bomb attack.

-- Prominent Ukrainian historian Mykola Shityuk has been found dead in his home city of Mykolaiv, police said on September 2.​

-- Ukraine says it has imprisoned the man it accused of being recruited by Russia’s secret services to organize a murder plot against self-exiled Russian reporter and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko.

-- Ukraine and Russia are trading blame for the killing of a top separatist leader in eastern Ukraine.

-- Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the head of the head of the breakaway separatist entity known as the Donetsk People’s Republic, was killed in an explosion at a cafe in Donetsk on August 31.

-- The United States is ready to widen arms supplies to Ukraine to help build up the country's naval and air defense forces in the face of continuing Russian support for eastern separatists, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine told The Guardian.

-- The spiritual head of the worldwide Orthodox Church in Istanbul has hosted Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill for talks on Ukraine's bid to split from the Russian church, a move strongly opposed by Moscow.

*Time stamps on the blog refer to local time in Ukraine

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Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE)

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Saakashvili Supporters March In Kyiv

Thousands of people marched in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on December 10 to demand the release of opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili from custody and to call for the impeachment or resignation of President Petro Poroshenko. The rally started at the city's Shevchenko Park, where some protesters displayed portraits of Ukrainian soldiers held captive by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)

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WATCH LIVE: Activists gather outside the detention center in Kyiv where Saakashvili is being held:

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Filmmaker Beata Bubenets
Filmmaker Beata Bubenets

Russian Nationalists Disrupt Screening Of Film About Ukraine Conflict

By RFE/RL's Russian and Ukrainian services

Members of a Russian nationalist group have disrupted the screening in Moscow of a film about the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The movie Bullet's Flight by director Beata Bubenets was due to be screened at the documentary film festival Artdocfest in the Oktyabr movie theater on December 10.

But reports said several individuals sprayed an acrid liquid in the hall, prompting an evacuation.

The leader of the South East Radical Block (SERB) movement, Igor Beketov, told the Interfax news agency that he was among three members of the group detained by police over the incident.

Law enforcement authorities have not commented.

Fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists has killed more than 10,000 people in eastern Ukraine since April 2014.

With reporting by Interfax

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