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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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Ukraine was the 15th most miserable country in the world in 2014, according to Business Insider.

The rating notes that Ukraine’s level of inflation equaled 12.1 percent, and the unemployment rate was 8.8 percent. The Ukrainian economy was also been affected by an economic crisis after Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea.

In 2014, Ukraine’s GDP fell by 6.8 percent. Business Insider also cites corruption and inefficient reforms that “continue to hold back the country.”

Nevertheless, according to the Ukrainian State Statistics Service, September 2015 marked the second month in row when prices on consumer goods decreased.

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Two Ukrainian fighters were wounded in the Donbas over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksandr Motuznyak said.

He said separatists violated the cease-fire regime seven times over the past day.

At the same time, Motuznyak noted that for the first time in 16 months it has been quiet in the western suburbs of Donetsk.

“However, the frontline zone is still life-threatening," he said. "In Stanitsa Luhanska and Hranitne village in Donetsk Oblast, locals were injured by exploding land mines. Two people were hospitalized."

Separatists, for their turn, claimed that Ukrainian forces had violated the cease-fire regime six times over the past 24 hours.

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The RBK-Ukraine news agency has reported that Odesa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili stopped criticizing Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk because the president asked him to.

"Saakashvili attacked Yatsenyuk to divert attention from the fact that it has been 100 days since he became a governor and, traditionally, he has to report now. But he had nothing to boast about. However, Poroshenko explained to him that public criticism of the boss was wrong, even if the criticism was formal," RBK-Ukraine quoted an anonymous source in the presidential administration as saying.

Saakashvili denied there was any truth to the report.

"I don't know what kind of source the author had (I doubt it exists at all) or whom he was trying to calm down, but each one of these claims is a 100 percent lie," he wrote on Facebook.

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