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An activist stops a lorry near the village of Chongar, in the Kherson region adjacent to Crimea.

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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12:23 1.9.2015

Here's a Ukrainian National Guard Facebook post announcing the death of another guardsman:

11:22 1.9.2015

Here are some more details of the second guardsman's death in Kyiv:

A second member of Ukraine’s National Guard has died from injuries following clashes outside parliament.

"Dmitry Slastikov "died from injuries after yesterday's grenade explosion," Interior Minister Arsen Avakov wrote on Twitter on September 1.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk blamed ultranationalists for the violence, which also saw more than 140 people hospitalized.

In an address on live television, Yatsenyuk said the right-wing protesters were "worse" than the Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine who have been locked in a civil war with the government since last year, because their violence comes "under the guise of patriotism."

World powers, including the United States, Germany, Russia, and European Union, also condemned the violence, and urged Ukrainian legislators to keep up their work decentralizing the government through measures that implement the Minsk peace accord.

(AFP, Interfax)

10:48 1.9.2015
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Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says a second member of Ukraine’s security forces injured outside parliament on August 31 has died. (AFP, Interfax) MORE TO FOLLOW...

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09:58 1.9.2015

Here's an item concerning Mustang Wanted from RFE/RL's Russian Service:

MOSCOW -- Prosecutors have asked a Moscow court to sentence five Russians to three years in jail each over a stunt in which a Soviet star atop a Stalin-era skyscraper was painted in the yellow-and-blue colors of the Ukrainian flag.

A Ukrainian flag was also hoisted over the apartment tower near the Kremlin early on August 20, 2014.

Prosecutors requested on August 31 that one of the defendants be handed a suspended sentence due to her being pregnant.

She and three others are accused of drawing attention to the painted star and the flag by jumping from the 176-meter building with parachutes.

The fifth defendant is accused of helping Ukrainian stunt daredevil Pavlo Ushyvets -- known by the nickname Mustang Wanted -- to paint the star and hoist the flag.

The trial started on August 17. The defendants pleaded not guilty.

Ushyvets, who is in Ukraine, has announced on Facebook that he carried out the stunt alone.

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