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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

15:46 11.9.2015

Khmarochos, a Kyiv magazine, has published an in depth history of Kyiv’s main square, named Independence Square, but better known now simply as Maidan (Ukrainian for square). The magazine collected photos from 1870 until today to show how Maidan has changed throughout the years.

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Some interesting pix surfacing of Berlusconi and Putin in Crimea:

19:33 11.9.2015

It sounds like controversial French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy may be ruffling feathers again:

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Peripheral to Ukraine but pertinent:

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