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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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21:16 18.3.2016

Barring any major developments, that ends the live blogging for tonight.

20:59 18.3.2016

Not really Vlad:

18:24 18.3.2016

17:35 18.3.2016
Crimean Tatar Leader: Putin Will Help 'Wake Up Russia Sooner'
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WATCH: Refat Chubarov, the head of the Mejlis, the executive council of the Crimean Tatar people, spoke to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service in Prague.

16:05 18.3.2016

Here's a new video from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

Ukraine Takes Down Largest Remaining Lenin Statue

A city in Ukraine bid good riddance to the country's largest remaining statue of Vladimir Lenin. It took a crane to lift the 20 meter-tall, 40-ton statue of the Soviet leader from its pedestal in the city of Zaporizhia.

Ukraine Takes Down Largest Remaining Lenin Statue
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