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Odesa market shooting and a quiet few days
Summary
A look back at a shooting at Odesa's Seventh Kilometre market and two other items from Ukraine's news at the start of June 2020.
What did Ukraine's news look like on 2 June 2020? The most serious item came from Odesa, where a shooting broke out at the Seventh Kilometre market. Two people were hurt, and ten were detained.
The reports from that day give no further detail on the incident, so the figures above are what was established: two casualties and ten people held.
Tremors in the Carpathian foothills
A day earlier, on 1 June 2020, two earthquakes struck Ivano-Frankivsk region, with their epicentre near the town of Dolyna. They measured magnitude 3.2 and 2.7. No one was reported injured.
A music award announced online
On 31 May 2020, the winners of the Golden Firebird (Zolota Zhar-ptytsia) awards for 2020 were announced online. Oleh Vynnyk was named singer of the year, and Nastya Kamenskykh was named female singer of the year.
Taken together, these items show the range of what was reported in those days: a violent incident in a southern port city, minor seismic activity in the west and a cultural award held online.
