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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)

15:26 9.1.2016

Russia and representatives of the separatist-held territory in Ukraine's Donetsk region have said they are against putting UN peacekeepers in the Donbas region.

15:24 9.1.2016

A Radio Svoboda report on the return of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva to Sevastopol, Crimea, after a tour of duty in Syria.

15:22 9.1.2016

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has requested that an Italian magazine print a correction to a map that identified Crimea as being Russian territory.

15:19 9.1.2016

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says failure to pass the referendum in the Netherlands on Ukraine's Association Agreement could spark a "continental crisis."

15:11 9.1.2016

A Radio Svodoba report on the volunteers from the St. Egidio Community who held a Christmas programs and dinners for homeless, poor families, and the elderly in Lviv, Kyiv, and Ivano-Frankivsk.

15:06 9.1.2016

A poll taken in the Netherlands shows that a majority of those surveyed are against ratification of the EU Association Agreement for Ukraine. A nonbinding vote will be held in Holland on April 6.

20:52 8.1.2016

Barring any major developments, that ends the live blog for today.

20:41 8.1.2016

17:51 8.1.2016

16:49 8.1.2016

Feature from Tony Wesolowsky on Ihor Kolomoyskiy taking Russia to court to try to get his seized assets back.

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