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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)

12:43 18.2.2016
Oleksandr Motuznyak
Oleksandr Motuznyak

One Ukrainian serviceman was killed, three others were injured over the past 24 hours in Donbas, said Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksandr Motuznyak.

"The enemy occasionally uses heavy weapons, mortars and 122-millimeter artillery. Enemy snipe [fire] also intensified again along the frontline," he said.

Pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk oblast, for their part, claim that Ukraine has violated the cease-fire regime 102 times over the past 24 hours, while separatists in Luhansk oblast say that Ukrainians have shelled them three times.

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