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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)

12:01 27.12.2015

From the BBC:

Tour of the museum that houses Ukraine's nuclear past

It was one of the most feared weapons of the Cold War and was dubbed "Satan" by Nato.

The USSR's SS-18 missiles were over a thousand times more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the full arsenal capable of global destruction.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, many of them ended up in the hands of Ukraine, who agreed to put them out of service.

10:45 27.12.2015

We wrote about Vlad Kolesnikov in June.

"For some weeks now, Kolesnikov has been leading a quixotic and lonely campaign to protest Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea and Moscow's involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Most recently, he wore a T-shirt with a Ukrainian flag and the words "Return Crimea" on it to his school in the Moscow suburb of Podolsk. He tells how a school official met him outside the classroom."

10:41 27.12.2015

Very sad story.

10:40 27.12.2015

12:49 26.12.2015

The western Ukrainian city of Chmelnyckyj welcomes its new police force.

12:29 26.12.2015

Explosion reported in the Solomen district of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. No further details immediately available.

12:25 26.12.2015

Three Ukrainian soldiers wounded in southeastern Ukraine over past 24 hours, according to the country's military. No fatalities reported.

11:44 26.12.2015

The live blog is now up for December 26. Stop by for the latest news from Ukraine.

21:53 25.12.2015

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.

21:52 25.12.2015

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