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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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Here's an item from RFE/RL's news desk:

Former Deputy Chief Of Presidential Office In Ukraine Questioned Over Maidan Killings

Andriy Portnov (file photo)
Andriy Portnov (file photo)

Andriy Portnov, a former deputy head in the administration of ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, has been questioned as a witness by the Prosecutor-General's Office about obstruction of justice allegations against his former boss stemming from the deadly Euromaidan protests.

Portnov wrote on Facebook that his questioning on July 29 was an attempt to "distract me from my work on [former Ukrainian Presidnet Petro Poroshenko."

"I think their main goal was...to give me a signal to make me slow down my activities against Poroshenko. We will not slow down...There is no point in trying to frighten us," Portnov told Hromadske TV.

Portnov, who fled Ukraine after Yanukovych was toppled in late February, 2014, returned to the country on May 19.

After coming back a day before President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's inauguration, he filed several lawsuits against Poroshenko accusing him of crimes including economic misdeeds and illegal attempts to retain power.

With reporting by Hromadske TV
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A heads-up from a representative of Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy:

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