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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

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15:04 27.8.2015

Here's an MH17 update from our news desk:

The Dutch Safety Board has announced that the final report into the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine last year will be published on October 13.

All 298 people on board the plane, travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, were killed in the crash last year.

Two thirds of the victims were Dutch, and the country is leading the judicial and air safety investigations into the crash.

In a preliminary report last year, the Dutch Safety Board blamed the crash on "high energy objects" striking the aircraft.

Western governments have said they believe it was downed by a ground-to-air missile fired in error by Moscow-backed separatists.

Russia contests that claim, and has variously attributed the crash to an unidentified Ukrainian fighter aircraft and a Ukrainian-launched anti-aircraft missile.

Last month, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to establish an international tribunal to find and try those responsible for the Boeing 777's downing.

(Reuters, AFP)

15:08 27.8.2015

Russia does not comply with the Minsk agreements, said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

“Both sides must fully fulfill the Minsk agreements … This applies mainly to Russia, because it doesn’t seem that the Russian side fulfills its commitments to stability in Ukraine,” he said.

15:27 27.8.2015

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker confirm that the Free trade zone between the European Union and Ukraine will begin functioning on January 1, 2016.

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