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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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It definitely gives one pause for thought...

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A news item from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

Nemtsov Park, Plaque Unveiled Near Russian Embassy In Kyiv

The plaque was unveiled at a park near the Russian Embassy in Kyiv.
The plaque was unveiled at a park near the Russian Embassy in Kyiv.

KYIV -- A plaque honoring slain Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been unveiled at a park near the Russian Embassy in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko and Nemtsov's daughter, Zhanna Nemtsova, took part in the ceremony on March 15.

An urban park near the area in front of the Russian Embassy was also named after Nemtsov, who was shot dead in Moscow in 2015.

Klitschko said at the ceremony that Nemtsov "always wished success to Ukraine."

"Boris Nemtsov harshly criticized the activities of the Russian Federation toward Ukraine, he condemned the annexation of Crimea, openly stated that Russian troops were present in the Donbas [Ukraine's east]. He was a person who supported and was concerned about our country," Klitschko said.

In June last year, authorities in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, unveiled a sign honoring Nemtsov and named a segment of the street in front of the Russian Embassy after him.

Boris Nemtsov Plaza was officially unveiled outside the Russian Embassy in Washington on February 27, 2018 -- the anniversary of Nemtsov's killing -- triggering criticism from Moscow.

А former deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin, Nemtsov was an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, and had sought to build a viable opposition movement. He was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin.

In July 2017, a Moscow court found five men from Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya guilty of Nemtsov's murder and sentenced them to lengthy prison terms.

But Nemtsov’s relatives and associates believe his killing was ordered at a higher level, and say justice will not be served until the person or people behind it are identified and prosecuted.

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Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE.)

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