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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)

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And speaking of the munitions fire, our news desk has this update:

Woman's Body Found In Debris At Blazing Ukrainian Munitions Depot

Smoke rises over a warehouse storing tank ammunition at a military base in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on march 23.
Smoke rises over a warehouse storing tank ammunition at a military base in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on march 23.

Ukrainian officials say a woman's body has been found under debris at the site of a massive munitions-depot fire near the eastern city of Kharkiv.

The chief of Ukraine's Emergency Service, Mykola Chechotkin, said on March 24 that the body of a woman born in 1951 had been found in a damaged building late the previous evening.

Explosions and fires that broke out at the munitions depot in Balakliya early on March 23 prompted the evacuation of some 20,000 people.

The depot stores some 138,000 tons of ammunition and is used to supply Ukrainian forces fighting Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Ukrainian authorities blamed "sabotage" and President Petro Poroshenko pointed the finger at Russia.

Authorities had said on March 23 that one woman was injured.

Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman said earlier that the fire has affected half of the 368-hectare depot and could continue for up to seven days.

Based on reporting by UNIAN and Interfax
11:39 24.3.2017

Here's a video of the fire at a munitions depot that broke out yesterday (from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service):

Drone Footage Shows Scale Of Ukraine Fire

Reports from Ukraine said fires and explosions were continuing at a huge ammunition store in Balaklia, near Kharkiv in the northeast of the country. Drone footage shot on March 23 showed the extent of the disaster, which Ukrainian authorities blamed on sabotage.

Drone Footage Shows Scale Of Ukraine Fire
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