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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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12:29 2.9.2015

A mobile group that works on the demarcation line between the separatist territories and Ukraine proper trying to prevent unauthorized goods from crossing over was shot at today in Luhansk oblast.

Two people died and four others were injured in the shooting.

The head of the Luhansk military-civilian administration, Heorhiy Tuka, wrote about the incident on his Facebook page:

“Now, I’m not an official. I’m a volunteer, a simple man … One of the dead is my friend! My personal friend!”

Tuka said he had a clue about who was behind the attack, but didn’t provide further details.

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11:50 2.9.2015

Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):​

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