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A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard in the city of Schastye in the Luhansk region late last month.
A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard in the city of Schastye in the Luhansk region late last month.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Final News Summary For September 1, 2017

-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of September 2, 2017. Find it here.

-- Ukraine says it will introduce new border-crossing rules from next year, affecting citizens of “countries that pose risks for Ukraine.”

-- The Association Agreement strengthening ties between Ukraine and the European Union entered into force on September 1, marking an end to four years of political drama surrounding the accord.

-- The trial of Crimean journalist Mykola Semena will resume later this month after the first hearing in weeks produced little progress toward a resolution of the politically charged case.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv (GMT +3)

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A tweet from Lithuania's foreign minister, who, incidentally, also spoke to RFE/RL today about Russia's involvement in Syria:

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We've re-upped this 2015 video by RFE/RL's Current Time TV on the claims that Motorola summarily executed Ukrainian prisoners.

Ukrainian Soldier Described Separatist Commander 'Motorola' Executing POWs

Russian media reports that a commander of Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has been killed by an explosion in his apartment building in Donetsk. Arseny Pavlov, a Russian citizen who went by the nickname "Motorola," led a separatist unit known as the Sparta battalion. Kyiv had accused him of war crimes for killing prisoners of war. In an interview with RFE/RL's Current Time TV in 2015, a Ukrainian soldier said he witnessed Motorola executing a fellow POW named Ihor. Motorola once boasted in an interview with the Kyiv Post that he killed prisoners. But when questioned by RFE/RL, he denied that he executed POWs.

Ukrainian Soldier Describes Separatist Commander 'Motorola' Executing POW
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A tweet from a news editor at the BBC World Service

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A Kyiv Post editor gives some pretty short shrift to a tweet by a Kremlin-funded media outlet:

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