A Radio Svoboda video report on President Petro Poroshenko at the unveiling of a monument to Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa in the city of Poltava today.
The Ukrainian military reports more Russia-backed separatist snipers have been shooting along the Line of Contact in different parts of the Donbas region.
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