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Moscow Court Upholds Extending Pretrial Detention Of Ukrainian Sailors
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WATCH: Moscow Court Upholds Extending Pretrial Detention Of Ukrainian Sailors

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Live Blog: A New Government In Ukraine (Archive Sept. 3, 2018-Aug. 16, 2019)

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-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of August 17, 2019. You can find it here.

-- A court in Moscow has upheld a lower court's decision to extend pretrial detention for six of the 24 Ukrainian sailors detained by Russian forces along with their three naval vessels in November near the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea and Sea of Azov.

-- The U.S. special peace envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Russian propaganda is making it a challenge to solve the conflict in the east of the country.

-- Two more executives of DTEK, Ukraine's largest private power and coal producer, have been charged in a criminal case on August 14 involving an alleged conspiracy to fix electricity prices with the state energy regulator, Interfax reported.

-- A Ukrainian deputy minister and his aide have been detained after allegedly taking a bribe worth $480,000, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau said on Facebook.

*Time stamps on the blog refer to local time in Ukraine

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An interesting comparison (especially when you consider how things turned out back in 2008)

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It doesn't sound like things are going to deescalate any time soon:

22:55 25.11.2018

But it does have all the hallmarks of a potentially incendiary situation:

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And here's what appears to be a video of the aforementioned smoke bombs:

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Things seem to be heating up in the Ukrainian capital:

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Hmm...

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More confusion in the ranks?

22:41 25.11.2018

Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov has announced that the council will convene at midnight local time to discuss the introduction of martial law.

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