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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

14:37 25.8.2015

On Google Translate "Revolution of Dignity" written in Ukrainian translates to "political crisis in Ukraine" in Russian.

14:40 25.8.2015

In other news, Wladimir Klitschko, heavyweight world boxing champion, younger brother of Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, was spotted riding the Kyiv subway.

14:50 25.8.2015

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16:17 25.8.2015

Odesa swore in its new police force, of around 800 officers, today.

President Poroshenko came to the port city and expressed his hope that the Odesa police will be as successful as their Kyiv counterparts. Poroshenko warned police to stay away from bribes. “If you take one, you’ll lose your self-respect,” he said.

To mark the event, the monument to Duke of Richelieu, Odesa's first governor, was dressed in a police hat.

17:02 25.8.2015

17:45 25.8.2015

Russia has built five pontoon bridges across the Donets river on the border between Ukraine and Russia, which is not controlled by the official government forces, claimed Oleksandr Turchynov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security Council. He also stated that the Russian side has equipped access roads to these crossings.

“This way military infrastructure is formed to ensure movement of additional Russian troops to occupied Ukrainian territory for combat,” said Turchynov. He emphasized that this is yet more proof of Russia’s direct participation in the war in Donbas.

17:49 25.8.2015

Citizens of Artemivsk, in Donetsk Oblast, decided to change back to Bakhmut, the historic name of their town.

Earlier this year Ukraine approved de-communization laws that ban Soviet symbols and communist-era propaganda. Artemivsk had been named after a Russian revolutionary Fyodor Sergeyev -- known as Artem.

The decision was made after public hearings around town between August 17-21.

17:54 25.8.2015

17:55 25.8.2015

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