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A lawmaker from the party of the ousted Ukrainian president was attacked Tuesday by a crowd in the Black Sea port of Odessa during campaigning for a parliamentary election set for Oct. 26. Nestor I. Shufrich, a deputy in the Party of Regions and a defender of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, was left bleeding from blows to the face, his shirt ripped to the waist, before he was bundled into a van by his bodyguards. Supporters said Mr. Shufrich had been campaigning on behalf of an opposition bloc running against pro-Western and Ukrainian nationalist parties. Odessa lies to the west of Crimea, which Russia annexed in March after the overthrow of its ally Viktor F. Yanukovych, Ukraine’s president at the time. A lawmaker from the party of the ousted Ukrainian president was attacked Tuesday by a crowd in the Black Sea port of Odessa during campaigning for a parliamentary election set for Oct. 26. The lawmaker, Nestor I. Shufrich, a deputy in the Party of Regions and a defender of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, was left bleeding from blows to the face. He was bundled into a van by his bodyguards. Supporters said Mr. Shufrich had been campaigning on behalf of an opposition bloc running against pro-Western and Ukrainian nationalist parties. Odessa lies to the west of Crimea, which Russia annexed in March after the overthrow of its ally President Viktor F. Yanukovych.