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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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21:37 8.8.2019

Hmm...

21:40 8.8.2019

RFE/RL's Christopher Miller has tracked down the enigmatic political consultant who hired a DC lobbying firm for Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Marcus Cohen told RFE/RL he paid nearly $70,000 out of his own pocket – out of good will toward the new Ukrainian president.

21:42 8.8.2019

We are now closing the live blog for today, but we'll be back again tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then, you can keep up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.

08:33 9.8.2019

Good morning!

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