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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

21:22 27.8.2015

That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Thursday, August 27. Check back here tomorrow morning for more of our continuing coverage.

07:36 28.8.2015

Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with a handful of the more-interesting tweets that caught our eye overnight:

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Here's a tweet linking a LifeNews interview that didn't quite go as planned. When Irish director Johnny O'Reilly was being asked about his film Moscow Never Sleeps, he unexpectedly gave a shout out to Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov, who he said was jailed for political reasons:

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