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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Our Moscow correspondent Tom Balmforth reports:

Nadia Savchenko's lawyer Nikolai Polozov just wrote on Facebook that he believes the Savchenko situation is "critical," as she is having difficulty coming out of the hunger strike and won't allow Russian doctors to treat her.

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We are now closing the live blog for today. Until we resume again tomorrow morning, you can keep up with all our other Ukrainian coverage here.

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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)