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)

14:43 14.1.2016

Winter On Fire, Ukraine Documentary, Nominated For Academy Award

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- The latest on the 88th annual Oscar nominations announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:

The Oscar nominees for documentary feature have been announced in Beverly Hills, California. They are: "Amy," "Cartel Land," ''What Happened, Miss Simone?," ''The Look of Silence," and "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom."

14:40 14.1.2016

Just in from AFP:

Kiev, 14 jan 2016 (AFP) -- Poroshenko says he wants European, US help in securing Crimea's return

Poroshenko says Ukraine aims to regain control of separatist east in 2016

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