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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)

14:18 11.10.2015

The latest Ukrainian military map of the situation on the ground in Donbas:

14:16 11.10.2015

A few dozen communists in the self-proclaimed "people's republic" in Ukraine's Donetsk region have rallied in support of the separatist fighters.

14:14 11.10.2015

The #YanukovychLeaks project was recognized for its work at the 9th Annual Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Norway (October 8-11).

14:12 11.10.2015

President Poroshenko has issued a decree requiring all state offices to fly Ukrainian flags on Ukraine's Day of the Defender holiday on October 14.

14:08 11.10.2015

The SBU has uncovered a cache of weapons including grenade launchers.

14:07 11.10.2015

14:04 11.10.2015

Three Ukrainian naval cadets who were in Crimea when it was taken over by Russian forces have graduated from the Royal British Naval College.

16:36 10.10.2015

De-Communization experts in Ukraine say that finding sites to dump Lenin statues and other communist-era stuff is the easiest part of the process.

16:30 10.10.2015

16:27 10.10.2015

Ukrainian forces are preparing to open a checkpoint on temporarily occupied territory in the Luhansk region (video):

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