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

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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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This is presumably an example of how problematic the issue of decommunization is in places like Dnipropetrovsk. RFE/RL's Yulia Ratsybarska has more on that topic here. (It seems the city is now named after St. Peter not the Bolshevik revolutionary Grigory Petrovsky... As Volodomyr Noskov reported earlier this year, similar proposals have been mooted in Kharkiv)

14:42 29.12.2015

Here is today's map of the situation in the Donbas conflict region, courtesy of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):

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