Ten-year-old Sasha stands in a bomb shelter in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

September 29, 2016 07:28 CET

Follow all of the latest developments as they happen.

Final News Summary For September 29

-- We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog. Find it here.

-- Ukraine is marking 75 years since the World War II massacre of 33,771 Jews on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Kyiv.

-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stabilize a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine and do all he could to improve what Merkel called a "catastrophic humanitarian situation" in Syria.

-- Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a decision by a Moscow-backed Crimean court to ban the Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Ukrainian territory.

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

12:09 25.10.2015

President Petro Poroshenko and his wife Maryna have voted. "We voted for Kyiv to be a truly European city!" Poroshenko tweeted along with the photo of the couple casting their ballots.

12:08 25.10.2015

Don't they know "it's not wise to upset a Wookiee"? Odesa police have arrested Chewbacca, a member of the Internet Party of Ukraine. The main member of the party, Darth Vader, is running for Odesa mayor. (Find out more here)

11:44 25.10.2015

Meanwhile, in non-election news, the Internet's favorite trainspotter is looking on the bright side of the decision to cancel flights between Ukraine and Russia:

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A tweet from the U.K. ambassador to Kyiv:

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