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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

18:29 7.8.2015

That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Friday, August 7. Thanks for reading. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage.

12:38 8.8.2015

Weapons and ammunition discovered by Ukrainian secret service agents in Odesa.

12:40 8.8.2015

Ukrainian parliamentary deputies have urged their colleagues in Europe Union countries not to travel to Russian-occupied Crimea, as a delegation of extremist French deputies did recently.

12:43 8.8.2015

There is a plan for Ukraine's Vinnytsia region to build a large solar power station that could help a bit to ween the region off of Russian energy.

12:50 8.8.2015

The losses from Ukrainian mines each month are estimated to be some 250 million hryvnyas (nearly $12 million).

12:53 8.8.2015

More than 140 people who have taken part in the fighting in eastern Ukraine have been given posts in the Defense Ministry.

12:54 8.8.2015

Russia's financial reserves in July dropped by a reported $4 billion.

13:01 8.8.2015

Ukraine's SBU says it uncovered this car bomb contained in a chocolate box.

13:05 8.8.2015

OSCE monitors recorded 21,309 people wearing camouflage cross the Russian-Ukrainian border from September 1, 2014 until August 4, 2015 at just two checkpoints.

15:32 8.8.2015

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