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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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From our Moscow correspondent:

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Another look at that very long ballot paper:

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An update on reported election violations from our news desk:

The police have so far registered more than 500 reports of election violation, the press service of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported in a Twitter post.

"As of 14:00, the police have registered 522 complaints and reports related to the electoral process," it said.

The greatest number of violations were registered in Kyiv, the Donetsk, Kharkov, and Dnepropetrovsk regions, the ministry said.

The police added that it had opened eight criminal cases over electoral violations.

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Our Ukrainian Service has a photo report about the Ukrainian army voting on the front lines near Luhansk. According to the correspondent there, the troops are brought to the polling station in small groups, in order not to reduce the troop's fighting strength.

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Our Ukrainian Service is also live blogging.

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And from our Current Time network, here are the candidates voting:

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More voting outside Ukraine:

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Also some comments from Poroshenko after voting: "This is an absolutely necessary condition for our moving forward, for the return of Ukraine into the family of European nations and our membership of the European Union and NATO."

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Joking around with journalists after casting his ballot, Zelenskyy said he was in an upbeat mood and had "voted for a very worthy guy."

"A new life is beginning, a normal life, a life without corruption, without bribes -- life in a new country, the country of our dreams," Zelenskyy said.

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