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Ukraine sacks its ambassador to Slovakia
By EUobserver
Ukraine's ambassador to Slovakia, Oleh Havasi, was sacked on 4 June after a relative of one of his diplomats tried to smuggle 60,000 packages of cigarettes as diplomatic mail. In March, Kiev dismissed Borys Zaychuk, its ambassador in Prague for links to a Ukrainian-Lebanese arms trader. Both men were nominated by Ukraine's ex-president Viktor Yanukovych.