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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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Poroshenko: "Are you ready to do everything to make sure that your partners, like Kolomoisky and others, don't access the national treasury and financial system?"

Zelenskiy making final remarks: "It's true that Mr. Poroshenko has achieved a lot. The language, the tomos (charter for an independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine), the military.... But somehow I feel that all of these achievements belong only to you. But I believe that the Ukrainian language existed before you. Visa liberalization [for travel to EU countries] is the victory of our diplomats and diaspora. The tomos is a victory for Ukraine, and of [leader of one of the main Ukrainian Orthodox churches] Filaret. The efforts began when you were still a pious visitor of the Ukrainian church of Russia. The military is the heroic act of Ukrainian volunteers, the people."

"I believe that we will be able to come and break the system. This mentality. we'll be able to bring a new, 21st century mentality."

"All of your people...have stolen five years from us."

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Poroshenko: "We need peace. We must end the war. The key to peace is not in Kyiv, but in Moscow, in Putin's hands. We need to continue building are army, to defend our language, our nation. How will you, who has belittled Ukraine with your jokes, calling them poor peasants of Europe, how will you defend the country?

Zelenskiy: "When people were dying on the Maidan, I appealed to Yanukovych to leave.... Whereas you told Putin that you'll kneel, but don't make Ukraine kneel."

"But I'm ready to kneel before every mother, every widow who has not had her son or her husband return," Zelenskiy says, and kneels.

"It's not so easy to be a simple person...."

"You're accusing me of [doing] business with Kolomoisky - name an example."

"You've been in parliament and other posts. But how long have you been an oligarch?"

Candidates now making final remarks.

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Zelenskiy: "If you appear before a judge, will you have the audacity to say it's a political persecution?"

Poroshenko: "I'm proud that Channel 5 has been a fair channel since 2003. In 2004, Channel 5 was the only channel that enabled the Orange Revolution.

"But the channel you work with is unashamedly spreading fakes and lies with the help of Russia, especially regarding me. It would be a good exercise for you to also answer questions by journalists from Channel 5. Will you be able to defend Ukraine's economy with Kolomoiskiy by your side?"

"Mr. Zelenskiy is a good artist, and perhaps a good man. But he is surrounded by people who are hovering around him, who ran away in 2013 and 2014 and now wish to return."

"Millions of Ukrainians will stand up and defend what we have built, in spite of your cohort who want to come back to Ukraine and take it over again."

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