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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

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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You can track the Ukrainian Central Election Commission's vote tally in real time here.

21:12 21.4.2019

Zelenskiy Promises Ukrainians 'I Will Never Let You Down'

Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked voters and promised he would never let them down after exit polls showed he was set to win a landslide victory in the April 21 presidential runoff vote against incumbent Petro Poroshenko.

Zelenskiy Promises Ukrainians 'I Will Never Let You Down'
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A few quotes from Zelenskiy's press conference following the vote and Poroshenko's concession:

"In any case, we will act in the Normandy format, we will continue the Minsk process. We will reboot it. I think that we will have personnel replacements."

"For us now, the task No. 1 is to return all our prisoners [detained in Russia], all our prisoners of war. This is our task No. 1. Our sailors."

"It is my duty to defend the Ukrainian language. It is my duty. I must protect the Ukrainian language as a guarantor and I will do it."

"[Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Yuriy] Lutsenko is an old team. We will appoint new people, new people. And this applies not only to Mr. Lutsenko."

20:41 21.4.2019

Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke today at a news conference at his campaign headquarters in Kyiv, saying, "I want to say I am very grateful to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who just congratulated me on the victory. I thank him. He said that I can count on his help at any time. He acknowledged my and my team's victory."

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