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

Ukrainian Protesters Attack Convoy Of Former Pro-Russian Governor

The convoy of Mykhaylo Dobkin was attacked by protesters on April 18 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Dobkin is the former governor of the region whose pro-Russian politics has angered many Ukrainian veterans who fought against Russia-backed separatist.

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Here's another update from our news desk, this time on Nadia Savchenko:

Savchenko Stops Hunger Strike

Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko
Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko

Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko, whom Russia has imprisoned on murder charges, has stopped her hunger strike.

Ukrainian President Petgro Poroshenko wrote on Twitter on April 19 that Savchenko "had agreed" to stop the hunger strike after talking to her by phone.

Savchenko, 34, has refused to consume water and food since April 6, demanding her immediate release.

She was sentenced in March to 22 years in jail on charges including complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The sentence came into effect on April 5.

She has refused to appeal the verdict and sentence, saying she does not recognize the legitimacy of the probe against her.

Savchenko said she was seized in eastern Ukraine in June 2014 while fighting with a volunteer battalion against Russia-backed separatists, and taken to Russia illegally.

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