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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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Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov attend a festive concert marking the first anniversary of the Crimean treaty signing in central Moscow, March 18, 2015
Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov attend a festive concert marking the first anniversary of the Crimean treaty signing in central Moscow, March 18, 2015

The Kremlin won't change the heads of the Crimean government before at least spring, thinks Crimean political scientist Dmytro Omelchuk.

“[Russian-backed de-facto head of Crimea Sergei] Aksyonov hasn’t exhausted the trust of the Moscow authorities or the man in charge [Putin]. He received certain guarantees and I think that all this talk is just political chatter. Maybe the need for change is long overdue, but nobody would do anything yet,” he said to RFE/RL Crimean desk.

Omelchuk doesn’t know who can take Aksyonov’s place.

“Most likely, it would be a Crimean citizen, but today no clear figures are seen in the monopoly of power of Aksyonov’s regime. So it is extremely difficult to make any predictions,” he said.

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