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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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We're now going to point you in the direction of a new feature by RFE/RL's Kyiv correspondent Christopher Miller.

Leading Ukraine Candidate Fights 'Fakes With Fakes' As Facebook Tests New Political Ad Rules

Mikhail Fedorov, a digital-campaign-team member for Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyy with his team in Kyiv earlier this month.
Mikhail Fedorov, a digital-campaign-team member for Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyy with his team in Kyiv earlier this month.

Beginning today, Facebook advertisers in Ukraine need the social network's authorization to reach users -- and ads from annexed Crimea and separatist-held areas are banned outright. But 13 days before an election, is it too little, too late?

Read more here.

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U.S., EU ambassadors, IMF mission ask Ukraine to postpone consideration of bills regarding illegal enrichment.

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A Ukraine item from our news desk:

Ukraine Reports 11 Measles Fatalities, More Than 30,00 New Infections This Year

Measles cases more than tripled across Europe last year, with Ukraine accounting for most of the gain. (file photo)
Measles cases more than tripled across Europe last year, with Ukraine accounting for most of the gain. (file photo)

Health officials in Kyiv have said that 30,794 cases of measles have been reported in Ukraine since the beginning of the year.

The Health Ministry said on March 18 that 16,969 of the victims were children and that 11 people had died of the disease.

There were more than 2,000 new infections reported during the week from March 11 to March 17.

On March 1, UNICEF reported that there were 35,120 measles cases in Ukraine in 2018, a massive increase over the nearly 5,000 cases reported in 2017.

Citing World Health Organization (WHO) data, UNICEF reported that just 42 percent of Ukrainian one-year-olds had received measles vaccinations as of the end of 2016.

The WHO recommends a vaccination rate of 95 percent to prevent major outbreaks.

Measles cases more than tripled across Europe last year, with Ukraine accounting for most of the gain.

The UNICEF report blamed the outbreak on "vaccine hesitancy" that threatens to undo decades of work to get the "highly preventable, but potentially deadly disease" under control.

Based on reporting by AFP and Interfax
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