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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

20:10 4.11.2018

Barring any major news, that ends the live blogging for today. See you again tomorrow.

10:05 5.11.2018

Good morning. Here are some of the more interesting tweets we noticed overnight:

11:54 5.11.2018

News from the front courtesy of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

Kyiv Says Ukrainian Soldier, Three Separatist Fighters Killed In East

A Ukrainian serviceman shoots a machine gun during fighting with Russia-backed separatists near Avdiyivka in eastern Ukraine on November 3.
A Ukrainian serviceman shoots a machine gun during fighting with Russia-backed separatists near Avdiyivka in eastern Ukraine on November 3.

Ukraine's government says one of its soldiers has been killed and four wounded as a result of clashes with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

The Defense Ministry in Kyiv said on November 5 that separatist fighters violated a cease-fire 18 times during the previous 24 hours by firing machine guns, grenade launchers, and mortars.

It said Ukrainian government forces killed three pro-Russia fighters and wounded four others.

Russia-backed separatists, meanwhile, accused Ukrainian government forces of violating the cease-fire 21 times during the previous 24 hours using guns, grenade launchers, and mortars.

Since April 2014, more than 10,300 people have been killed in fighting between Kyiv's forces and the separatists who control parts of Ukraine's eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Cease-fire deals announced as part of the Minsk accords -- September 2014 and February 2015 pacts aimed at resolving the conflict -- have failed to hold.

With reporting by Interfax and TASS
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