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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)

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Ilya Novikov
Ilya Novikov

One of Nadia Savchenko’s lawyers, Ilya Novikov, said that testimonies of victims in her case seem suspiciously similar to one another.

“We so far have had time to question two victims. We see that, I’m telling you in secret, their testimonies are copied. Dmitriyeva … we see that her testimony is exactly like the testimony of her daughter. This doesn’t happen. Moreover, the testimonies are of the type that the ‘Kyiv junta’ seized power,” said Novikov, according to the RFE/RL Ukrainian Service.

Moscow has frequently dismissed Ukraine’s post-Maidan government as a “junta.”

The Russian Donetsk court finished questioning Savchenko today and began questioning victims in the case.

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