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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

07:45 4.9.2015

07:37 4.9.2015

06:45 4.9.2015

Here's a nice story (including video) from Ukraine Today on a new "monument" in the eastern city of Zaporizhya that mocks Vladimir Putin.

06:28 4.9.2015

Good morning. We'll get the live blog rolling today with some of the more interesting tweets that came in overnight:

21:18 3.9.2015

We are now closing the live blog for today. Until we resume again tomorrow morning, you can keep up with all our ongoing Ukraine coverage here.

20:44 3.9.2015

Here's an item from our news desk on Kyiv's new broadcasting regulation:

Ukraine's parliament has passed a measure banning Russians from establishing or being involved in the business of television or radio stations in the country.

The measure that passed on September 3 says no one involved in the broadcast business can be from a country regarded by Ukraine as an aggressor. Earlier this year, the Ukrainian parliament declared Russia to be an aggressor state.

Ukraine has already banned Russian television channels from its cable systems.

The measure also calls for broadcast outlets to publish full information about their ownership structure on their websites and to provide this information to the national broadcasting council.

(AP, Interfax)

19:55 3.9.2015

19:54 3.9.2015

Not in English, unfortunately, but this infographic appears to give a nice overview (still easily decipherable for anglophones) of how the Ukrainian military has developed in the past year:

19:50 3.9.2015

19:49 3.9.2015

Liveuamap claims to be calling out yet more disinformation:

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