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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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14:58 7.9.2015

Here's a Hromadske.tv video of a Lenin statue in Zaporizhhya being draped in the colours of the Ukrainian soccer team:

14:52 7.9.2015

President Petro Poroshenko still owns one company directly and ten more through a closed, non-diversified corporate fund called Prime Assets Capital, reports Schemes, a Radio Liberty investigative program.

The ultimate owner of the fund is the president himself and its director is his father, Oleksiy Poroshenko.

The fund has assets in several different spheres, including agriculture, media and industry.

​Though during his presidential campaign Poroshenko had promised to sell his assets, the structure of his business has undergone few changes during his one year in office.

Poroshenko’s business partners are Ihor Kononenko, deputy chairman of his faction in parliament, and Oleh Hladkovskyy, first deputy secretary of National Security and Defense Council.

For two weeks the journalists tried to contact Poroshenko for comment, but despite multiple written and telephone inquiries to the president’s press service, they haven’t received a response.

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14:29 7.9.2015

In comments to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, former Mikhail Saakashvili again spoke out against corruption and vowed to pursue officials who only enrich themselves:

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, now governor of Ukraine's Odesa region, has vowed to stamp out corruption in his jurisdiction. In recent days, he has run into trouble with Ukrainian leaders, accusing officials in Kyiv of sabotaging his reform efforts.

Saakashvili: Corrupt Officials 'Only Playing Dead'
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14:09 7.9.2015

The so-called DPR has issued its own postage stamps.

One of them features portraits of famous separatists nicknamed “Givi” and “Motorola,” with a caption “Heroes of Novorossiya.”

The other one has a map of Donetsk in the colors of “DPR’s” flag and a caption: “Glory to miner-toilers” and “Glory to miner-warriors.”

14:08 7.9.2015

Andrey Purgin, the so-called head of the national council of Donetsk People’s Republic, was voted out of office in favor Denis Pushilin of his rival and former deputy on September 5.

The video shows the local militia forcefully dispersing a demonstration in support of Purgin in Donetsk that same day.

13:33 7.9.2015

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