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)

00:47 15.1.2016

We are now closing the live blog for today. Until we resume again tomorrow, you can keep up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.

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19:31 14.1.2016

Some more reaction to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's press conference today:

19:28 14.1.2016

"A number of separatist militants who had a falling out with the Kremlin and its puppet leaders in eastern Ukraine have been reported killed in recent weeks..."

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