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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

15:19 21.7.2019

Video from the agencies of Zelenskiy voting:

Zelenskiy Casts Ballot In Ukrainian Parliamentary Vote
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Thread from our Kyiv correspondent Christopher Miller. He’s on Twitter at @ChristopherJM

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Our Ukrainian Service is of course live blogging the elections today.

11:22 21.7.2019

AP reporting that Zelenskiy also said that one of the first tasks of the country's new parliament should be to consider lifting a law granting immunity from prosecution for members of parliament.

He told reporters "at last, we must take away immunity."

10:49 21.7.2019

More on Zelenskiy's comments after voting from our Kyiv correspondent Christopher Miller.

Ukraine's future prime minister must be a "professional economist."

Zelenskiy told reporters after casting his ballot at a polling station that Ukraine's next prime minister "must be an absolutely professional economist with no political [past]."

"I would very much like this to be an absolutely independent person who has never been a prime minister, a speaker, or a leader of any [parliamentary] faction," Zelenskiy said. "I am already holding consultations, talking...with some people."

While Zelenskiy may propose a candidate for the position of the prime minister, it is Ukraine's parliament that must approve him or her by a simple majority.

10:08 21.7.2019

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

10:06 21.7.2019

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

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