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A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard in the city of Schastye in the Luhansk region late last month.
A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard in the city of Schastye in the Luhansk region late last month.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Final News Summary For September 1, 2017

-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of September 2, 2017. Find it here.

-- Ukraine says it will introduce new border-crossing rules from next year, affecting citizens of “countries that pose risks for Ukraine.”

-- The Association Agreement strengthening ties between Ukraine and the European Union entered into force on September 1, marking an end to four years of political drama surrounding the accord.

-- The trial of Crimean journalist Mykola Semena will resume later this month after the first hearing in weeks produced little progress toward a resolution of the politically charged case.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv (GMT +3)

18:41 30.10.2016

Photos from the site of Russia's construction of the Kerch bridge into Ukraine:

18:40 30.10.2016

A Radio Svoboda report on Ukraine's linguistic divisions:

18:39 30.10.2016

18:35 30.10.2016

A report about a shooting today at a subway station in Kyiv:

18:33 30.10.2016

Russian nationalists have attacked Ukrainian-born tennis star Maria Sharapova because she was reportedly reading the book Chernobyl by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich:

16:25 30.10.2016

And again in Lysychansk, which is in Ukraine's Luhansk region, a story about an amazing family that has adopted nine orphans:

16:22 30.10.2016

Reports of an explosive device found at the train station in Lysychanska:

16:20 30.10.2016

A celebration in the Ukrainian town of Lysychanska to mark two years since it was liberated from pro-Russian separatists:

16:19 30.10.2016

A Radio Svoboda report on the suspension of funding for an important bridge in the city of Severodonetsk amid corruption charges:

16:16 30.10.2016

A video report by Radio Svoboda on the decommunization process in the Ukrainian city of Kotovsk (since renamed Podolsk):

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