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Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Luhansk region Mykola Zelenec was kidnapped and killed by militants in the east of Ukraine, Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius said.

“With deep sorrow [I’ve] just learned about Lithuania’s honorary consul in Luhansk Mr Mykola Zelenec [was] kidnapped & brutally killed by terrorists there,” he wrote on Twitter on Aug. 22.