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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)

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17:47 16.2.2016

Here's a video issued by Olga Kalenichenko and Ilya Nikonov from RFE/RL's Current Time TV and RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service

Squatting In Pervomaysk -- Finding Refuge In Eastern Ukraine

Some residents of Pisky and other neighboring villages in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine have moved to the nearby village of Pervomaysk for the winter. Some stay in once-abandoned but still livable dwellings there. Their new houses are relatively comfortable compared to the devastation they left behind. But they are still not home.

Squatting In Pervomaysk -- Finding Refuge In Eastern Ukraine
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17:28 16.2.2016

Here's more from our news desk on Viktor Shokin's reported resignation:

Reports: Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Resigns After Poroshenko Request

Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin (file photo)
Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin (file photo)

Ukrainian media and a pro-Western lawmaker say Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin resigned on February 16 after President Petro Poroshenko earlier in the day asked him and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to step down.

The Ukrainska Pravda newspaper cited an unidentified source in Shokin's office as saying that the official tendered his resignation following a statement by Poroshenko saying he and Yatsenyuk should quit "in order to restore trust in the government."

The Ukrainian news portal lb.ua also cited an unidentified source as confirming Shokin's resignation.

Ukrainian lawmaker Mustafa Nayyem wrote on his Twitter feed that Shokin had resigned but did not indicate a source for this information, which could not be immediately confirmed.

Shokin was called out by name earlier this month by Lithuanian-born Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, who announced his resignation and cited a "sharp escalation in efforts to block systemic and important reforms."

With reporting by pravda.com.ua, lb.ua, and Reuters
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16:46 16.2.2016

Lots of reports coming in now, saying Shokin has resigned:

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16:33 16.2.2016

It seems Shokin has decided to step down:

16:32 16.2.2016

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