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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)

00:06 8.2.2016

That concludes our live blog for today. Please join us again tomorrow for more coverage of events in Ukraine.

23:56 7.2.2016

A report on Ukraine's transition from the Russian market to markets in the West.

23:53 7.2.2016

A story on de-communization in Ukraine:

22:39 7.2.2016

New information on a blast at the Mejlis's office in Kherson.

17:26 7.2.2016

Separatist forces in eastern Ukraine claim shelling by government forces killed a man in the Donetsk region in this TASS report:

Monitors inspect death of man killed in western Donetsk
MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. Monitors of OSCE, the Joint Coordination
Center for Ceasefire Monitoring (JCCCM) and the defense ministry of the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) inspected the Trudovskiye
settlement in western Donetsk, where a local citizen was killed in the
shelling delivered by pro-Kiev military, the Donetsk News Agency reported
on Sunday referring to a source at the republic's defense authorities.
"OSCE, JCCCM and the DPR's defense ministry have inspected the place
where a man died in the Trudovskiye settlement," the source said. "At the
place, where he got injured, remain blood traces as well as traces from
many mine fragments near houses."
The source said, the man, born in 1962, died of a 82mm mine, which was
fired from positions of the Ukrainian military near the Maryinka town.
On Saturday, a civilian in the Trudovskiye settlement died of injuries
from a shelling, delivered from positions of pro-Kiev military.

17:24 7.2.2016

Human rights activists are reminding those who signed the Minsk accords about the rarely mentioned human rights component of those agreements:

17:20 7.2.2016

A video showing children making souvenirs for Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine:

17:19 7.2.2016

One wounded soldier reported by Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, no fatalities:

KYIV. Feb 7 (Interfax) - A Ukrainian serviceman suffered injuries in the army operation zone in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, but no one was killed, Ukrainian Presidential Administration spokesman for military matters Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said.
"Hostile snipers have been active near Maryinka. One of our servicemen was injured in a provocation of the kind. We did not have other casualties," he said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Sunday.
The number of hostile attacks practically halved over the past day, 47 violations of the cease-fire were observed, yet tensions remained, Motuzyanyk said. "The enemy sporadically uses heavy weapons, for instance 120mm and 82mm mortars," the spokesman said.
The enemy staged provocations in the Donetsk sector, for instance, on the Svitlodarsk bulge, by use of grenade launchers and machine guns, and 14 mines were fired on Ukrainian positions near Horlivka, he said.

17:15 7.2.2016

Two criminal gang leaders arrested in Crimea:

16:54 7.2.2016

An exhibit in Prague on Russian aggression in Ukraine:

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