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Moscow Court Upholds Extending Pretrial Detention Of Ukrainian Sailors
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WATCH: Moscow Court Upholds Extending Pretrial Detention Of Ukrainian Sailors

Ukraine Live Blog

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

09:17 1.4.2019

09:17 1.4.2019

Meanwhile, the war in the east grinds on...

09:16 1.4.2019

Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with some Twitter reaction to yesterday's presidential vote.

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01:12 1.4.2019

Nice late rundown from Election Day.

Comic Takes Lead After First Round Of Ukrainian Presidential Election
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01:08 1.4.2019

Gloves Come Off As Zelenskyy, Poroshenko Look Ahead To Ukraine Runoff

The predicted winners of the first round of Ukraine's presidential election came out swinging at their election-night parties in the capital on March 31, looking to land political body blows as focus shifted from dozens of contenders to just two.

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23:11 31.3.2019

That's probably it for today. Please follow our news coverage through the night for updates on the results. Or you can watch the results trickle in at Ukraine's Central Election Commission website.

23:06 31.3.2019

Updated numbers on that first key exit poll:

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22:59 31.3.2019

22:43 31.3.2019
Tymoshenko Says Exit Polls Manipulated
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WATCH: Tymoshenko Says Exit Polls Manipulated

21:47 31.3.2019

First preliminary results from the Central Election Committee, with less than 1 percent of the votes counted: Poroshenko had 919 votes, followed by Zelenskyy with 717, and Tymoshenko with 447.

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