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Ukrainian Security Service officers detain Major General Valeriy Shaytanov on suspicion of high treason and terrorism in Kyiv on April 14.
Ukrainian Security Service officers detain Major General Valeriy Shaytanov on suspicion of high treason and terrorism in Kyiv on April 14.

Ukraine Live Blog: Zelenskiy's Challenges (Archive)

An archive of our recent live blogging of the crisis in Ukraine's east.

22:07 30.1.2020

We are now closing the live blog for today, but we'll be back again to tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then, you can keep up with all our ongoing Ukraine coverage (including the latest updates on Mike Pompeo's Kyiv visit) here.

21:51 30.1.2020

So, it seems that Pompeo has arrived on his much anticipated visit to Ukraine.

You can read more on the U.S. Secretary of State's trip to Kyiv here:

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A Twitter thread from an investigative reporter who writes for Bellingcat:

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Another item from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

RFE/RL Correspondent's Car Set On Fire In Lviv

The burned-out car of RFE/RL journalist Halyna Tereshchuk in Lviv.
The burned-out car of RFE/RL journalist Halyna Tereshchuk in Lviv.

KYIV -- The car of an RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv was set on fire overnight on January 29-30 -- an arson attack which Deputy Interior Minister Anton Herashchenko said could have been ordered by someone.

Halyna Tereshchuk, who has been working for RFE/RL since 2000, said she suspected the attack was linked to her professional activities..

"We think the crime was ordered, that somebody hired someone to conduct it," Herashchenko said to RFE/RL, adding that the police were doing "everything to find both the perpetrators and those who ordered the attack."

The National Police department in Lviv said earlier in the day that a probe had been launched into the "deliberate destruction of the journalist's property."

The Ukrainian unit of rights group Freedom House condemned the torching of not only Tereschchuk’s vehicle, but on the same day, the car of Andriy Lukin -- an activist in Zaporizhzhya.

"We are outraged by the fires…and call on law enforcement agencies to investigate these incidents effectively," Freedom House Ukraine said on Facebook.

The group stated that "arson or other methods of destruction of vehicles and property are becoming increasingly used as a means to pressure active people in Ukraine."

It noted that there were 11 cases last year of property belonging to activists being destroyed and "in almost all cases, the perpetrators were not found and punished."

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