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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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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That concludes the live blog for today. Please join us again tomorrow for more news.

04:25 25.9.2016

Radio Svoboda video on a conference in Kyiv on what it means to be European:

04:23 25.9.2016

An interview with former Deputy PM Volodymyr Lanoviy on the prospects of growing GDP in Ukraine (he's not very optimistic at the moment):

04:17 25.9.2016

Pro-Russia prosecutors in Crimea are seeking to extend the sentence of a captive Crimean Tatar leader:

04:14 25.9.2016

A great report on Ukrainian parliament deputies who either own their own planes or regularly pay big sums to rent their own charter flights:

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