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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)

19:52 31.1.2016

Seventeen families in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk returned to their rebuilt apartments, which had been destroyed in fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists in 2014.

19:48 31.1.2016

This mural recently appeared on a building in Kharkiv:

19:40 31.1.2016

In "Letters from Occupied Donbas," Serhiy Andreev writes about how so many of his friends joined the Russia-backed separatists:

19:31 31.1.2016

An exhibition of portraits of Ukrainian political prisoners being held in Russia opened in Kyiv:

19:29 31.1.2016

A Savchenko lawyer says a verdict in her case could come as early as March.

19:20 31.1.2016

A lawyer for Nadia Savchenko says the Russian investigation into her case did not find any evidence proving her guilt:

19:13 31.1.2016

Report on the recent attacks in the Donbas region:

19:00 31.1.2016

From Radio Svoboda, winter in the Carpathians:

18:58 31.1.2016

An intriguing photo gallery by Andriy Pryimachenko:

16:03 31.1.2016

A report on the possibility of Ukraine getting 600 million euros (about $660 million) from the EU:

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