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Victory Day celebrations in Ukraine were darkened by incidents in the ex-Soviet republic's west, where local nationalists engaged in a brawl with WWII veterans in the city center, the Kommersant daily reported.Members of the Svoboda (Freedom) nationalist organization also trod on a wreath that the Russian consul general in Lvov, Oleg Astakhov, planned to lay at the tombs of soldiers who died during World War II. Read the story here