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Good morning. We'll get the live blog rolling today with a couple of news items that were filed by our desk in Washington overnight:

Ukraine's Zelenskiy To Pay Official Visit To Japan, Attend Emperor's Enthronement

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is embarking on a four-day working visit to Japan on October 21-24 where he’ll participate in Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony.

Ukraine's presidential website stated that Zelenskiy will also meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the leaders of the country's two legislative chambers, members of the Parliamentary Friendship Association with Ukraine, the management of Japan’s International Development Agency and the Japan Association of New Economy, as well as business executives.

During the visit, Zelenskiy has plans to meet bilaterally with leaders of other countries who will be attending the enthronement ceremony.

Kyiv enjoys warm relations with Tokyo as Japan has not recognized Russia's takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and has imposed certain restrictive measures on Moscow for the move.

"Ukraine is, of course, an independent sovereign country with a recognized border," Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Takashi Kurai told the Kyiv Post in July. "I do respect the people who are here who have been fighting for the freedom and independence of this country."

Japan has given Ukraine $50 million in humanitarian assistance meant for war victims since Russia-backed separatists took up arms against Kyiv in April 2014 in the two easternmost regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Tokyo has also given Ukraine nearly $2 billion in grants and loans since the Maidan pro-democracy movement ousted disgraced former President Viktor Yanukovych from power in February 2014.

Japan has also donated some 1,500 cars for Ukraine's revamped police force as well as provided money and advice for the country’s beleaguered health-care system.

Japan also eased travel-visa requirements for Ukrainians in 2017

With reporting by the Kyiv Post

Ukraine Court Orders Former Security And Defense Official To 60-Day Pretrial Detention

Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has remanded the former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council to 60 days in pretrial detention on abuse-of-office charges and for allegedly submitting an erroneous asset declaration to authorities.

Oleh Hladkovskiy, a longtime business associate and political ally of former President Petro Poroshenko, has denied the charges and said the HACC's ruling was “politically motivated,” according to the Interfax news agency.

A bail of $424,000 was set that Hladkovskiy’s lawyer said will most likely be posted on the morning of October 21.

The bail amount is equal to the alleged inflated price margin of a defense industry public procurement order for vehicles that Hladkovskiy’s Kyiv-based Bohdan Motors had fulfilled.

Bohdan Motors manufactures passenger cars, buses, trolleybuses, as well as special-purpose vehicles, such as trailers, ambulances, vans, and cranes of various modifications.

If released, Hladkovskiy, 49, will be required to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and he won't be able to leave the Kyiv region.

Hladkovskiy is also accused of omitting more than $164,000 worth of leasing income that his wife earned in 2016-2018 on his asset declaration forms as a public official.

National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) detectives detained the former official on October 17 at Kyiv’s Boryspil airport and a day later he was issued a notice of suspicion.

He faces between five to eight years in prison if found guilty.

His lawyer, Ruslan Volynets, has filed a countersuit with Kyiv’s Shevchenko District Court contending that Hladkovskiy was unlawfully detained.

Volynets told Interfax that his client had "systemically" cooperated with investigators, appeared for questioning in a timely manner, provided requested information, and had traveled abroad and returned to Ukraine 10 times after leaving public service.

The HACC is the newest addition to Ukraine's court system and started operating in September.

With reporting by Interfax and Ukrayinska Pravda