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)

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That concludes our Live Blog for today. Please join us again tomorrow.

20:40 17.11.2015

Why the escalation in fighting in eastern Ukraine?

20:30 17.11.2015

20:16 17.11.2015

Russian-backed separatists in the Luhansk region arrested a woman for taking a selfie near a roadblock.

19:26 17.11.2015

News about the crash of a Mi-2 plane in western Ukraine.

19:25 17.11.2015

A Czech dissident says that Russian propaganda is far more dangerous than Soviet propaganda was.

15:05 17.11.2015

A Radio Svoboda piece on how the low hryvnya is a boon to Ukrainian exporters:

15:03 17.11.2015

Winners of the patriotic cartoons contest:

15:02 17.11.2015

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius is in Kyiv.

14:58 17.11.2015

Ukrainian Airlines says it will continue to fly to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, but will institute additional security measures.

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