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)

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15:32 27.2.2016

Here is the latest map of today's situation in the Donbas conflict zone, courtesy of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE)

15:13 27.2.2016

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12:57 27.2.2016

At today's march in memory of assassinated opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow:

11:18 27.2.2016

Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with some of the tweets that caught our eye overnight.

21:23 26.2.2016

Barring any major developments, that concludes the live blogging for today.

19:53 26.2.2016

More speculation about Finance Minister Jaresko possibly replacing Yatsenyuk.

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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)