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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

20:48 24.7.2019

Here's some EU reaction to the Pavlo Hryb verdict yesterday:

EU Calls For 'Immediate Release' Of Ukrainian Convicted By Russia Of 'Promoting Terrorism'

Ukrainian Pavlo Hryb in a Russian court earlier this year.
Ukrainian Pavlo Hryb in a Russian court earlier this year.

The European Union has called for the immediate release of ailing 20-year-old Ukrainian national Pavlo Hryb, who has been convicted in Russia of "promoting terrorism."

On July 23, Russia's Supreme Court upheld a six-year prison sentence given to Hryb, who was convicted by the North Caucasus Regional Court in March.

Hryb has said the charge against him was fabricated by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

In a statement on July 24, EU spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said Hryb "suffers from a very serious medical condition which could become life-threatening at any moment" and said Ukrainian doctors have not been allowed to see him.

Kocijancic called on Russia to release all "illegally detained Ukrainian citizens."

Hryb went missing in August 2017 after he traveled to Belarus to meet a woman he met online.

Relatives believe he walked into a trap set by the FSB, which later told Ukraine that Hryb was being held in a detention center in Russia on suspicion of promoting terrorism.

Ihor Hryb said that his son was detained when he was returning from Belarus to Ukraine.

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