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WATCH: Moscow Court Upholds Extending Pretrial Detention Of Ukrainian Sailors

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

-- 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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This ends our live blogging for April 14. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.

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WATCH: After Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addressed supporters and responded to journalists' questions on April 14, he took a crowd of supporters inside Olimpiyskiy Stadium, where his rival, actor and film producer Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has challenged him to stage a debate before the April 21 presidential runoff. The crowd was taking selfies with Poroshenko and then sang the national anthem. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, Ukraine's Presidential Press Service via AP)

Ukraine's Poroshenko Takes Supporters Into Stadium
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WATCH: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrived for a presidential debate at Kyiv's Olimpiyskiy Stadium on April 14. His rival in the April 21 presidential runoff, actor and film producer Volodymyr Zelenskiy, did not show up after insisting that he would only debate on April 19. Poroshenko first addressed his supporters outside the stadium and then took questions from journalists in an improvised press center. (Ukraine's Presidential Press Service via AP)

With No Rival To Debate, Poroshenko Talks To Journalists, Supporters
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