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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

12:08 21.7.2019

And among those reported violations are fake bomb threats, according to the Kyiv Post.

12:06 21.7.2019

According to the Interior Ministry, police have received 382 reports of electoral violations.

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After Zelenskiy voted, he told journalists that he believes the head of the government should be a professional economist, who has not been involved with the government or politics.

11:54 21.7.2019
Polling station inside School No. 44
Polling station inside School No. 44

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

A polling station inside School No. 44 in central Kyiv was buzzing with voters who waited in line to cast their ballots. Monitor Arkady Dryuker said it had been busy since opening at 8 a.m. with only one slight disturbance when a person began agitating for one of the parties, which he declined to name. He said the person was quickly ushered away.

Many people there said they were ticking the party list box for Servant Of The People, the party of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. A pensioner who shared the first name of the president and cast his ballot for his party said his decision was based on the fact that he felt hopeful about politics in Ukraine for the first time in a while. He said he voted for Petro Poroshenko and his party in 2014 but was disappointed by their performances. A younger woman named Iryna said she was voting for the Voice party because she thought they had the most qualified candidates who were also “new faces.”

The polling station in Kyiv’s Podil region
The polling station in Kyiv’s Podil region

At another school in Kyiv’s Podil region, Valentyna and her daughter Nadezhda said they voted for Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party because they believe he set the country on a European course and were pleased with the results of his presidency. Valentyna said she liked Poroshenko “because he is a real politician” and members of his party have “political experience” needed to govern. Zelesnkiy, Nadezhda said, is “unprofessional.”

“He’s a comedian...and we need serious people” leading the country, she said.

Also at the polling station, Viktor Buryazuk and Olena Ivanenko said they voted for Servant of the People out of loyalty to Zelesnkiy. “We see hope in Zelenskiy...we want change,” Ivanenko said.

They also voted for Serhiy Leshchenko, a member of parliament running for reelection but who was forced to do so in the single-mandate district there after not being allowed onto the Servant party list. Leshchenko is among the two dozen or so lawmakers known as Euro-Optimists who were elected in 2014 but have struggled to find their place in politics since.

11:31 21.7.2019

President Zelenskiy voting...

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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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