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

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

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)

04:04 25.9.2016

A Radio Svoboda report on the infighting among the Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine's Luhansk region:

02:50 25.9.2016

The latest from Russia on the two Ukrainian "saboteurs" in Crimea:

02:28 25.9.2016

Nadia Savchenko says she opposes granting a special status to any parts of the Donetsk or Luhansk regions:

02:21 25.9.2016

02:17 25.9.2016

A report suggesting a Russia adviser for Donald Trump has promised the Kremlin an end to economic sanctions if Trump wins the presidency:

02:09 25.9.2016

More on the alleged suicide of a former separatist official in Luhansk:

02:02 25.9.2016

01:58 25.9.2016

15:42 24.9.2016

An Interfax report says Gennady Tsypkalov, the former self-proclaimed "chairman of the Council of Ministers" in the Russia-backed part of Ukraine's Luhansk region, has committed suicide. Separatist representative Sergei Rakhno said on September 24 that Tsypkalov killed himself while in detention by the separatists as part of an investigation for his involvement of a coup attempt. Rakhno said Tsypkalov hanged himself after "obviously having realized the depth of his criminal actions."

15:36 24.9.2016

Relatives of flight MH17 victims are demanding that the European Commission do more to investigate the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane that left 298 people dead when a missile brought the plane down as it flew over the Donbas region in 2014.

In a letter to EU foreign policy chief Frederica Mogherini, the relatives said "298 people were brutally killed, and the investigations were clearly hindered."

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