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A second serviceman of the Ukrainian National Guard injured in the explosion of a grenade in confrontations near the Verkhovna Rada on Monday has died, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.

“Another [serviceman] of the National Guard’s military unit 3027, Dmytro Slastykov drafted from Zhovte Vody, has died at hospital of injuries sustained in yesterday’s grenade explosion,” Avakov wrote on Facebook on Sept. 1.