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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)

16:25 10.10.2015

The first congress of the interregional organization "Union of Volunteers of the Donbas" was held.

16:22 10.10.2015

Ukraine Security Services (SBU) chief Vasyl Hrytsak says there are between 6,000 and 9,000 Russian troops permanently operating on Ukrainian territory and another 50,000 on the immediate border with Ukraine.

16:09 10.10.2015

16:07 10.10.2015

President Poroshenko says that some 210,000 Ukrainians were mobilized into the armed services.

15:58 10.10.2015

The Ukrainian community in the Swiss city of Basel held a march in support for the Russian-jailed pilot Savchenko and film director Sentsov.

15:55 10.10.2015

A Russian lawmaker has proposed declaring President Vladimir Putin to be king.

15:54 10.10.2015

A report on the possibility of Ukrainian citizens being allowed visa-free travel in the European Union.

15:52 10.10.2015

Photos from a Culinary Festival in Dnipropetronsk today that was held to support the military in Donbas.

15:45 10.10.2015

A second humanitarian aid logistics center has been opened by the Ukrainian government in the Donbas region.

15:41 10.10.2015

The president of the Association of Psychiatrists of Ukraine and human rights activist Semyon Hluzman told Radio Svoboda in an interview about how little has changed among the parties in power in the country:

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