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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 new item from RFE/Rl's Mike Eckel might raise a few eyebrows:

Christchurch Attacks: Why Are The Names of A Georgian King and A Ukrainian Extremist Written On The Guns?

A policeman stands guard Masjid al-Noor mosque after a deadly shooting incident in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15.
A policeman stands guard Masjid al-Noor mosque after a deadly shooting incident in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15.

Investigators piecing together the motivations of the suspected gunman behind New Zealand's worst terrorist attack are poring over the 87-page hate-filled manifesto he published, and the memes, cultural references in his online rantings, and musical allusions contained in the video he took of the deadly incident.

Then there is the multilingual lettering scrawled on his guns, with references to various figures from history, past and more recent: Serbian, Italian, Hungarian, Ukrainian. And then there's the Georgian king and Georgian consort from the 12th century.

Read more here.

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Hmm... It seems former Odesa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili thinks Putin's next target could be Sweden or Finland.

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There are presumably many who will see this as an outrageous piece of trolling by the Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin (not to mention the Kremlin outlet running the "story.")

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From Canada's foreign minister:

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