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The former “mayor” of Horlivka, a town in the Donetsk region controlled by Russia-backed separatists, is a Ukrainian military intelligence agent.

A spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s military intelligence, Vadym Skibitskiy, said on November 25 that Eduard Matyukha had provided Kyiv with information on the situation in the territories Ukraine doesn’t control in the eastern region of Donetsk for five years.

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