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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

11:31 21.7.2019

President Zelenskiy voting...

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10:52 21.7.2019

Um, not sure what's happening here...

10:51 21.7.2019

From our Current Time TV network. Tymoshenko has voted:

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From our Kyiv correspondent Christopher Miller. He’s on Twitter at @ChristopherJM

The weather is great for today's election but that may not translate to a high voter turnout. Experts predict turnout will be lower than the presidential elections in March and April when 62 percent of eligible voters cast ballots. The 2014 parliamentary elections saw 52 percent voter turnout. Low voter turnout may bode poorly for parties filled with new faces, such as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's Servant of the People and singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk's Voice. But it could help establishment parties like those of former President Petro Poroshenko (European Solidarity) and ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (Fatherland), who have smaller but arguably more devout followings.

Just two hours into voting, Ukraine's National Police and Central Election Commission have reported several violations. Eight polling stations did not open on time due to technicalities, such as disputes between local officials, or fraud in one case.

In Bakhmut, a city that butts up against the front line of the war in eastern Ukraine, a polling station was closed after its official observers were found to have already fixed the results sheet in the local district race. Police said they tried to hide the fix by dumping ink over the documents.

09:22 21.7.2019

The BBC's Steve Rosenberg is inside a Ukrainian polling station:

09:12 21.7.2019

Election explainer from the Kyiv Post:

08:10 21.7.2019

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