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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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Here's a brief item from RFE/RL's news desk on Poroshenko's speech to the UN General Assembly:

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Russia is exploiting its veto power on the UN Security Council as a "license to kill" by obstructing international initiatives to punish Moscow for its "aggression" in Ukraine.

"Abuse of the veto right, its usage as a license to kill, is absolutely unacceptable," Poroshenko said in a September 29 address to the UN General Assembly in New York.

Russia has vetoed a Security Council resolution criticizing a widely-denounced referendum that preceded the Kremlin's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in March 2014.

It also vetoed a resolution to establish a tribunal to try those suspected of responsibility for the July 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine, which killed all 298 people aboard.

Kyiv and the West suspect the jet was shot down with a Moscow-supplied missile system by Russian-backed separatists.

Russia denies the allegation and claims it is not backing the rebels.

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It looks like the screen on the left is the BBC:

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