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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

13:31 25.7.2015

Savchenko moved to detention center in Rostov region:

Jailed Ukrainian pilot and parliament member Nadia Savchenko has been taken to a detention facility in the city of Shakhty in Rostov region.

Her lawyer Mark Feigin told Interfax on July 25 that Savchenko was already at the detention facility.

TASS reported that her relatives had been informed that she is staying at the Novocherkassk detention center.

An indictment against Savchenko was sent to the Donetsk town court in Rostov region on July 13.

The indictment is due to pave the way for a trial.

Savchenko, who has been jailed since July 2014, says she was illegally brought into Russia after being abducted by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Interfax, TASS)

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This ends our live blogging for July 25. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.

07:39 26.7.2015

09:04 26.7.2015

Pro-Russian separatists say ammunition-truck capture staged by Kyiv:

MOSCOW. July 26 (Interfax) - The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) has described as a staged show the incident with a Kamaz truck at Berezove border checkpoint.

"It is absolutely clear that this was staged by the Ukrainian special services. We did not receive any ammunition from Russia before and are not receiving any now," a source on the DPR government told Interfax.

The source assumed that Berezove border checkpoint was chosen to set up the incident as the most controlled by Kyiv.

"We don't control this checkpoint. It stands at a significant distance to the north from our territory [on the border with Russia's Rostov region]. It is controlled by Ukrainian border guards and special services. They can set up any show there," the source said.

The press service of the Ukrainian State Border Service reported earlier on Sunday that "at about 10 p.m. on July 25 officers of the State Border Service detained a Kamaz truck crammed with ammunition at Berezove checkpoint (Donetsk region)." The report says that there were two men in uniform in the vehicle that arrived at the checkpoint from the direction of Olenivka community not controlled by the Kyiv authorities. According to the press service, the border guards found out that one of the men said he was a Russian army officer in the rank of a major and the other - a militiaman.

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