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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

20:16 13.9.2015

Someone didn't like this billboard of Vladimir Putin.

20:14 13.9.2015

The Russian Central Election Commission claims a U.S. company based in San Francisco tried to hack into its site. Unsuccessfully, of course!

20:13 13.9.2015

Recruiting members for the new police department in Chernihiv.

20:11 13.9.2015

Former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt says that Russia has created and is currently setting up two army corps in Donbas. And he has details:

12:30 13.9.2015

An interactive blog and infographic map on which Ukrainian food products are sold in which foreign countries.

12:23 13.9.2015

Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said in Chernihiv today that the country's militia will be completely transformed into police by November 7.

12:15 13.9.2015

A march was held today in Odesa in support of the Ukrainians being held in Russian prisons.

12:13 13.9.2015

11:58 13.9.2015

The Ukrainian military says its border guards have not fired a shot in the past 24 hours but had detained five vehicles carrying contraband.

11:56 13.9.2015

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