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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

14:24 21.7.2019

Our Ukrainian Service is of course live blogging the elections today.

14:24 21.7.2019

14:55 21.7.2019

Thread from our Kyiv correspondent Christopher Miller. He’s on Twitter at @ChristopherJM

15:52 21.7.2019

16:00 21.7.2019

17:19 21.7.2019

Video from the agencies of Zelenskiy voting:

Zelenskiy Casts Ballot In Ukrainian Parliamentary Vote
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Zelenskiy Casts Ballot In Ukrainian Parliamentary Vote
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17:49 21.7.2019

This 94-year-old woman had a heck of a time trying to vote at her local precinct in the western city of Lviv. After a confrontation stretching over four hours, the woman got so fed up that she ended up ripping apart her ballot and then started eating it, according to the TV channel Hromadske.

17:56 21.7.2019

Low turnout is being reported throughout Ukraine today, including the western Lviv region. RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service interviewed voters to try and understand what's behind the lack of enthusiasm.

19:07 21.7.2019

19:25 21.7.2019

Current Time is holding a special election broadcast of the Ukrainian parliamentary election, with live feeds from all the parties' headquarters in Kyiv. Russian translation is provided for the speeches in Ukrainian.

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