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)

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Here's today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):

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This looks useful...

13:33 17.1.2016

More on the gunfire incident involving OSCE observers yesterday:

11:08 17.1.2016

Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with a few of the tweets that caught our eye overnight:

Reaction to the German tabloid Bild's comprehensive expose on how Russia funds separatist-held territories in eastern Ukraine, which has been making waves:

And here's a link to the piece in case you missed it yesterday (well worth reading):

Meanwhile, elsewhere...

23:39 16.1.2016

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.

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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)