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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

12:45 18.9.2015

RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has this live feed of Ihor Mosiychuk in court today (natural sound no subtitles):

Mosiychuk, a deputy with the populist Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko, has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity after a video emerged of him allegedly negotiating bribes worth tens of thousands of dollars.

12:29 18.9.2015

12:28 18.9.2015

Here's another map of the situation in the Donbas (with the latest casualties):

12:26 18.9.2015

12:17 18.9.2015

12:17 18.9.2015

12:07 18.9.2015

Here's an update on some casualties in the east:

Two Ukrainian fighters died and five more were wounded over the past 24 hours in Ukraine, accoridng to presidential military spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

Lysenko said detonating explosives affected two groups of Ukrainian fighters on September 17.

According to Lysenko, since the launch of what the Kyiv authorities call an antiterrorist operation in the Donbas region, Ukrainian sappers have defused 18,500 explosive devices while also clearing explosives from 585 kilometers of roads, and 17 kilometers of rail tracks.

Earlier today, the Luhansk military and civilian administration reported that two Ukrainians were wounded as a result of separatists shelling their car with grenades on September 17.

11:27 18.9.2015

Here is a map of the latest situation in thre Donbas conflict zone, issued by Ukraine's Ministry of Defense (click image to enlarge):

10:43 18.9.2015

It seems Kyiv has taken a dim view of Silvio Berlusconi quaffing a fancy bottle of Crimean wine (from RFE/RL's news desk):

Ukrainian prosecutors are prepared to file charges against the director of a winery in Russian-occupied Crimea for uncorking a 240-year old bottle for Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Putin and Berlusconi spent last weekend in Crimea, touring ancient ruins and visiting the peninsula's prized Massandra winery.

Massandra, which was nationalized following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, has rare wine and sherry dating back more than 200 years in its collection.

Russian television showed Berlusconi examining a bottle of 1775 Jerez de la Frontera wine from the cellars and asking the director -- Yanina Pavlenko -- if he could try it, and she uncorked the bottle for him and President Putin.

Ukrainian media quoted Ukraine's Deputy Prosecutor-General for Crimea, Nazar Kholodnytskiy, as saying embezzlement charges against Pavlenko will be filed soon.

Massandra winery had five bottles of 1775 Jerez de la Frontera wine before the annexation.

Two other bottles of that wine were sold at Sotheby’s auction in 1990 and 2001. One bottle of the wine costs $100,000-$150,000.

(AP, UNIAN, Investigator.com.ua)

10:31 18.9.2015

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