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

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

September 01, 2017 05:48 CET

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)

18:05 23.7.2017

A Ukrainian court has brought charges, in absentia, against the country's former acting prosecutor general and his deputy:

18:04 23.7.2017

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17:46 23.7.2017

A very destructive forest fire is burning in the Kherson region:

17:42 23.7.2017

Volker says in Donbas today that there is an understanding in the United States that the conflict in eastern Ukraine is "open aggression by Russia."

17:41 23.7.2017

17:40 23.7.2017

There are an estimated 600,000 people on both sides of the front line in eastern Ukraine without access to clean water:

17:39 23.7.2017

U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Volker says he will return to Kyiv on Monday after spending today in the Donbas region:

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