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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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As Ukraine celebrates its Day of the National Flag ahead of Independence Day celebrations on August 24, a huge Ukrainian flag has been unfurled in Odesa, over the steps made famous by the classic film Battleship Potemkin:

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More on those arrests in Odesa:

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Here's a video of that man being attacked in Kharkiv, seemingly for wearing a U.S.S.R. T-shirt:

16:19 23.8.2015

Here is a map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, issued by Ukraine's Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):

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