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MOSCOW/KYIV - A Moscow court has arrested a Ukrainian regional governor in absentia, while Kyiv put on international wanted list a major separatist on July 2. Ihor Kolomoisky, Ukraine's central Dnepropetrovsk region head, was arrested in absentia for four cases of war crimes in the course of the ongoing armed conflict in that country, his lawyer Alexander Fomin said.

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