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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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Meanwhile, in Odesa:

13:21 12.12.2015

Here's how the Russian news agency Interfax is reporting the apparent death of a separatist leader in eastern Ukraine:

MOSCOW. Dec 12 (Interfax) - A car carrying Pavel Dryomov, a Cossack leader in the self-proclaimed Luhansk people's republic (LPR), has been blown up on a local motorway, Kostyantyn Knyryk, the leader of the News Front information center, told Interfax on Saturday.

"Preliminary findings indicate that a car carrying Luhansk Cossack commander Pavel Dryomov to his own wedding ceremony was blown up on the Pervomaisk-Stakhanov motorway," Knyryk said.

A source from the LPR people's militia told Interfax that Dryomov may have sustained fatal injuries in the attack. "Information on the Cossack commander's death is being verified. Preliminary findings indicate that he may have sustained fatal injuries," the source said.

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Reports are surfacing of the death of a separatist leader:

You can find out more about the man in question here

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Some more reaction to the unseemly brawl in the Ukrainian parliament yesterday:

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