An activist stops a lorry near the village of Chongar, in the Kherson region adjacent to Crimea.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (ARCHIVE)

September 21, 2015 01:21 GMT

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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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Here is a map of the latest military situation in the Donbas region -- courtesy of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense (click image to enlarge):

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To mark the 150th anniversary of the cleric's birth, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has been unveiling a memorial in Lviv to the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrey Sheptytsky, who died in 1944. According to this tweet, Poroshenko suggests the late church official, who lived under both communism and nazism, is an example to Ukrainians, because "With his life, Sheptytsky proved that idols always fall, but faith, hope, and love remain with us."

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A tweet from Ukraine's ambassador to the UN:

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