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Lawyer For Russian Soldier On Trial In Ukraine Found Murdered

The body of a lawyer representing a Russian serviceman on trial in Ukraine was found buried on an abandoned farm with signs of violent death, Ukrainian authorities said on March 25.

Ukrainian chief military prosecutor Anatoliy Matios said two men have been detained in connection with Yuriy Hrabovskiy's murder, one of whom confessed and led police to the body.

Matios said Hrabovskiy was drugged and kidnapped in Kyiv earlier this month, then taken to Odesa, where he was last seen. He was later taken to the countryside nearly 150 kilometers south of the capital where he was shot and killed.

Hrabovskiy was representing Aleksandr Aleksandrov, a serviceman captured along with another Russian, Yevgeny Yerofeyev, last year in a part of eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed separatists.