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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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Putin finds it easier to work things out with Erdogan than the EU...

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This seems to be what is springing to people's minds:

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Ukraine’s Main Parliamentary Coalition Breaks Up Ahead Of President-Elect's Inauguration

People's Front leader Maksym Burbak said his party was withdrawing from the ruling European Ukraine coalition on May 17. (file photo)
People's Front leader Maksym Burbak said his party was withdrawing from the ruling European Ukraine coalition on May 17. (file photo)

KYIV -- Ukraine's main parliamentary coalition has broken up after the People's Front party withdrew from it, Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy has said.

The May 17 announcement comes after Maksym Burbak, the leader of the People's Front, the second largest faction in parliament, said his party was withdrawing from the ruling European Ukraine coalition.

The move comes three days before the inauguration of President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

According to the constitution, parliament now has 30 days to form a new governing coalition.

The president also has the right to dissolve the legislature and announce a snap parliamentary election if a new coalition is not formed.

The next parliamentary elections are scheduled for October 27.

The European Ukraine coalition was created in November 2014.

With reporting by Gordon and UNIAN

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