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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (ARCHIVE)

Follow all of the latest developments as they happen.

Final Summary For September 21

-- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on Russia to withdraw heavy weapons from eastern Ukraine.

-- No trucks have passed through the administrative border from mainland Ukraine to Crimea overnight, according to Oleh Slobodyan, the spokesperson for Ukraine’s State Border Service.

-- Hundreds of pro-Kyiv activists from Crimea's Tatar community and other opposition activists are taking part in the blockade of roads from Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula to protest Russia's annexation of the region last year.

-- The German government has criticized Russia for not distancing itself from plans by Russian-backed separatists to hold local elections in eastern Ukraine without consulting Kyiv.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv

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09:13 17.7.2015

This just in from our news desk:

Australia has held a memorial service to mark the first anniversary of the MH17 air disaster over Ukraine, in which 298 people, including 38 Australians and residents, died.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott unveiled a plaque with the names of the Australian victims in the gardens of Parliament House in Canberra on July 17.

The plaque sits on top of soil taken from the area where the plane came down.

The Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on July 17, 2014.

Investigators, led by the Dutch, believe evidence points to a Russian missile fired by Russian-backed rebels as the likely culprits. Russia and the separatists deny any responsibility.

Memorial ceremonies will also be held in Ukraine and the Netherlands on July 17.

(AP, the BBC, Sky News)

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