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The dead body of a man has been found hanging on the frame of an artificial New Year's tree on Kyiv's Independence Square, the city police authority said. 

The police, who were tipped about the find through an emergency phone line on Monday morning, identified the man, who was believed to have hanged himself. The man had been a resident in Volyn region in Ukraine’s northwest and born in 1958, the authority told Interfax-Ukraine.