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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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Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has also congratulated Zelenskiy:

12:45 22.4.2019

This graphic shows that Zelenskiy's margin of victory was higher than in any other previous Ukrainian presidential election:

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Pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, in this case Crimea de facto chief Aksenov, continue to stress how the election is a rejection of the what replaced Yanukovych:

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The graphic of voting totals throughout Ukraine shows how dominant he was (Poroshenko only doing well in the far west):

https://elections.dekoder.org/ukraine/en

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated Zelenskiy on his victory:

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Yulia Tymoshenko said Zelenskiy's victory is a "chance for Ukraine":

12:32 22.4.2019

Poroshenko actually won the vote among Ukrainians living abroad, with about 54 percent to 45 percent over Zelenskiy:

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