Ten-year-old Sasha stands in a bomb shelter in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

September 29, 2016 07:28 CET

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)

16:11 25.10.2015

No charges will be pressed apparently

16:08 25.10.2015

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15:28 25.10.2015

Here's some Chewbacca clarification. Probably wouldn't have happened if he'd arrived in the Millennium Falcon instead of a car:

15:24 25.10.2015

15:20 25.10.2015

15:11 25.10.2015

It appears that Chewbacca, who was detained earlier in Odesa for "illegal campaigning," has now been released. (We'll keep an eye out for any further developments):

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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)