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Donetsk (Ukraine) – Thousands of Ukrainians stood in line with flowers on Feb. 10 in the separatist fiefdom of Donetsk to bid farewell to a field commander who was slain in a rocket attack on his office.

Kyiv and the insurgents have traded blame for the death of Mikhail Tolstykh with investigators saying a portable rocket launcher was fired at his office in a suburb of Donetsk on Feb. 8 morning.

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