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 Sloviansk "people's mayor" Viacheslav Ponomariov has confirmed information about the death of Volodymyr Rybak, a deputy of the Horlivka Town Council of the Batkivschyna Party. 

“I have visited the morgue. The two bodies were supposed to be our spies. However, they have come back to their permanent location and these two men are Volodymyr Rybak and a young man, who is most likely his driver,” Ponomariov told Interfax on Wednesday.

There is evidence of torture on the bodies, Ponomariov said. “Ukrainian ultra-right nationalists are behind the killing of Rybak and his driver,” he said.