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Moscow Court Upholds Extending Pretrial Detention Of Ukrainian Sailors
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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

21:49 4.12.2018

A tweet from Ukraine's ambassador to Austria.

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This will probably be controversial...

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We are now closing the live blog for today, but we'll be back again tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then you can keep up with our all other Ukraine coverage here.

And here's a video from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service before we go:

Protester's Life Unchanged, Five Years After Ukraine's Uprising

Halyna Trofanyuk joined the mass protests in Kyiv known as the Euromaidan, hoping Ukraine would have a prosperous future and closer ties with the European Union. Five years later, she travels to neighboring Poland for work -- just as she did before the what Ukrainians call the "Revolution of Dignity."

All For Nothing: Maidan Protester Deeply Disillusioned Five Years On
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09:57 5.12.2018

Ukraine Security Agency Blames Attempted Cyberattack On Russia

By RFE/RL

Ukraine's security agency said it has thwarted a massive cyberattack and blamed Russia for the attempted attack that targeted the country's court system.

The Security Service of Ukraine said in a statement December 4 that hackers used falsified accounting documents to target computers of the country's judiciary system.

The service, known as the SBU, said the alleged hacking was "massive" but provided no detail about the extent, timing, or severity of the hacks.

Ukraine has been hit regularly by major cyberattacks and hacking attempts since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea and Russian-backed militants launched a war in eastern regions that has killed more than 10,000 people.

In December 2015, the country's electrical grid was targeted with coordinated cyberattacks that caused major disruptions in power supplies.

The SBU blamed Russia. However, U.S. government agencies, who later pinpointed the intrusions, stopped short of blaming Moscow.

Private researchers, however, blamed a Russian hacking group that is believed to have links to Russian security agencies.

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