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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RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has issued this video of the aftermath of the blast in Odesa (natural sound):

Blast Occurs Outside SBU Offices In Odesa

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Blast Occurs Outside SBU Offices In Odesa

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10:29 27.9.2015

Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with some tweets that caught our eye overnight:

This Independent op-ed from a former U.K. ambassador to Moscow has plenty of people foaming at the mouth on Twitter:

There also appears to have been a bomb attack in Odesa in the early hours of the morning. Thankfully, there have been no reported casualties:

And here's some other stuff relevant to Ukraine:

21:55 26.9.2015

That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Saturday, September 26. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage.

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