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)

14:18 20.12.2015

President Poroshenko will address the Israeli parliament during his upcoming trip there:

14:16 20.12.2015

In Crimea, the alleged corruption in the sale of a business in Simferopol:

14:13 20.12.2015

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry again calling on Russia to ensure that its part of the Minsk agreements are fulfilled:

14:12 20.12.2015

Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk announces that only personal items will be allowed to be carried by anyone across the administrative border of the Russian-occupied Crimean region

21:37 19.12.2015

We are now closing the live blog for today. Until we resume again tomorrow morning, you can keep up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.

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19:54 19.12.2015

Quite an arresting image:

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