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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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17:57 29.7.2015

The latest MH17 conspiracy theory:

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Kyiv puts a name to the Russian officer it says it detained last week:

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Ukrainian Security Service: about 2,000 Russian officers advising separatists

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Here's an MH17 update from our news desk:

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on July 29 made an "urgent" appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to veto a UN Security Council resolution to create a tribunal for a trial of those suspected of shooting down Malaysia Airline's flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

Rutte's office said he telephoned Putin, ahead of the vote in New York later on July 29 to seek his backing for setting up the international tribunal and trial over the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jet that killed 298.

Malaysia, the Netherlands, Australia, Ukraine, and Belgium have called for such a tribunal.

Malaysia has circulated a draft resolution on the issue with a vote set for July 29 around 3 p.m. local time at UN premises in New York

The resolution would require all countries to cooperate with the special tribunal or face sanctions.

The Kremlin says Putin told Rutte he remains firmly opposed to such a tribunal.

(Reuters, AP, AFP, dpa, TASS, Interfax)

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