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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Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt says that after making it through the tumultuous and violent year of 2014, "Ukraine can survive anything." In an interview with RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service TV program Our Freedom, Pyatt reflected on his three years of duty in Kyiv. He said that he regretted more had not been done to eliminate corruption in the country. Pyatt is leaving Ukraine after being appointed as the new U.S. ambassador to Greece.

Outgoing U.S. Envoy: Ukraine 'Can Survive Anything' But Needs To Tackle Corruption

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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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Outgoing U.S. Envoy: Ukraine 'Can Survive Anything' But Needs To Tackle Corruption