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)

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Good morning. We'll start today's live blog with a few of the things that caught our attention overnight:

More on the outgoing U.S. ambasssador to Kyiv...

...who has also tweeted this

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We are now closing the live blog for today. Until we resume again tomorrow morning, you can catch up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.

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Here's a video report courtesy of RFE/RL's Current Time TV on heavy fighting near Maryinka:

Fighting Flares In Ukraine's Maryinka, As Both Sides Hold Ground

Ukrainian troops traded fire overnight with Russia-backed separatists in the eastern city of Maryinka, where both sides have been holding their positions for weeks. (RFE/RL's Current Time TV)

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