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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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A meeting between Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and some other separatist representatives:

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An in-depth report on what the Russians are doing in the Sea of Azov:

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Imprisoned Ukrainian Film Director Sentsov Makes His Will Public

By RFE/RL's Russian Service

Imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who ended his nearly five-month hunger strike in a Russian prison earlier this month, has made his will public.

Hromadske television channel in Ukraine published Sentsov's will on its website on October 26.

In his will written on September 7 when he was still on a hunger strike, Sentsov, imprisoned in Russia after opposing Moscow's takeover of his native Crimea, asks his associate, film director Yevhenia Vradiy to make movies based on his five scripts -- Rhinoceros, Kai, Brilliant World, Crows, and Kristi, if he dies.

The last three scripts Sentsov wrote while in Russian custody.

According to the will, Sentsov wants his daughter and son to be the beneficiaries of the profits gained from the films.

The television channel received Sentsov's will from his cousin, Natalya Kaplan.

Sentsov's lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, confirmed to RFE/RL that the will is original.

Kaplan said earlier that Sentsov may not survive after ending the hunger strike because of the damage to his health.

Sentsov's will was published a day after the European Parliament awarded him with its prestigious 2018 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Sentsov, a Crimean native who opposed Russia's 2014 takeover of the Ukrainian peninsula, is serving a 20-year prison term after being convicted of terrorism in a trial that he, human rights groups, and Western governments contend was politically motivated.

He is currently imprisoned in the far northern Yamalo-Nenets region of Russia.

With reporting by Hromadske TV
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