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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Radio Svoboda on a report from a task force set up by Spanish prosecutors to investigate the relationship between the Kremlin and the Tambov mafia:

21:42 20.12.2015

A report on alleged political repression in Crimea:

21:41 20.12.2015

Ukrainian analyst Tara Kuzio's take on the Avakov-Saakashvili spat:

21:37 20.12.2015

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An interesting prediction on the Avakov-Saakashvili feud from Ukrainian journalist Vitaliy Sych, who also said that Ukraine's prosecutor-general and prime minister have to be replaced in order for Ukraine to progress on reforms:

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