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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

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President-elect Andrzej Duda
President-elect Andrzej Duda

President-elect says Poland should be part of Ukraine peace talks: PAP

WARSAW, Aug 5 (Reuters) -- Poland together with Ukraine's other neighbours should be involved in resolving the crisis in eastern Ukraine, Poland's president-elect Andrzej Duda said.

Duda, who is from the socially conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) and will be sworn-in as president on Thursday, has repeatedly signalled that he will seek a more active diplomatic role for Poland.

The current ceasefire was agreed on by leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France in Minsk on Feb. 12 but fighting is still taking place.

"Talks on Ukraine should be conducted in a new formula, with the participation of Poland and other neighbours of Ukraine," Duda said in an interview carried by state agency PAP on Wednesday.

"A permanent peace can be guaranteed only by a wide peace conference," he said.

Ukraine's former borders should be reestablished, he said.

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