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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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This ends our live blogging for November 30. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.

09:36 1.12.2018

Good morning. As usual, we'll get the live blog rolling today with a few of the things that caught our eye overnight.

The human side of the conflict:

10:18 1.12.2018

Some Ukraine-related info in this item from our news desk:

Manafort Could Face New Charges, Sentencing Likely In March

U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort (file photo)
U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort (file photo)

The special counsel investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election may file additional charges against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman.

A prosecutor from Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office told a judge on November 30 that prosecutors have not yet decided whether to file new charges against Manafort.

"That determination has not been made yet," Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said at a federal court hearing in Washington.

The new charges, if any, could stem from what lawyers in Mueller's investigation say were lies told by Manafort, whom they accuse of violating a plea agreement.

Weissman spoke at a hearing during which U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson set March 5 as the tentative sentencing date for Manafort.

The 69-year-old already faces years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy counts in the Washington court and being convicted of financial fraud crimes at a Virginia court, which is scheduled to sentence him in February.

Manafort joined Trump's presidential campaign in March 2016 and became chairman but resigned five months later.

Both cases stem from political work Manafort did for Moscow-friendly former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his party, and undisclosed lobbying work he admitted to performing on behalf of Ukraine in violation of U.S. law.

Prosecutors have said that next week they plan to reveal what they believe are lies Manafort told since he pleaded guilty in the Washington case in September and agreed to cooperate with the investigation.

Manafort's lawyers deny he lied, and it will be up to a judge to rule on whether he broke his plea deal.

Based on reporting by AP and Reuters
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Ukraine's prime minister notes that today is the 27th anniversary of his country's 1991 independence referendum, which was approved by more than 90 percent of those who voted.

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