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)

11:16 27.1.2016

Here's a second source on the attempt to blow up the Donetsk Lenin:

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09:50 27.1.2016

Ukraine has ranked 130th out of 168 countries in a new survey of global graft published by the corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI).

"If you analyze what is going on as far as anticorruption reforms [in Ukraine], not so much is going on," said Svetlana Savitskaya, TI’s regional coordinator for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Europe and Central Asia. "The political will is pretty weak -- the government doesn’t demonstrate that it is so committed to perform well on [taking] anticorruption [actions]."

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