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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

14:29 22.7.2015

Volunteer Rebel Sheds Light On Russian Military Involvement In Eastern Ukraine

A Russian citizen fighting in eastern Ukraine says Russian troops regularly enter separatist-controlled territory and serve there on a rotational basis. Read more

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This ends our live blogging for July 22. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.

07:39 23.7.2015

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka giving the recently banned-from-Ukraine Gerard Depardieu a lesson in how to use a scythe.

07:41 23.7.2015

RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports on the discovery of a group of separatists posing as Ukrainian soldiers.

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