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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The Ukrainian news website UA Today is reporting that Ukrainian National Bank head Valeriya Hontareva has resigned, possibly a victim of the Panama leaks. The leaks revealed that she had an offshore partnership with Yury Solovyov, the first vice president of Russia's state-owned VTB bank.

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Here is a video of Petro Poroshenko's response to the Dutch referendum result:

Poroshenko Reacts To Rejection Of EU-Ukraine Pact By Dutch Voters

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his country will continue to forge closer ties with the European Union despite the rejection of an association agreement by Dutch voters in a nonbinding referendum. (Reuters)

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