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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20:54 7.5.2016

Another in the series of essays called "Letters from the occupied Donbas":

20:50 7.5.2016

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A papal spokesman said today that Pope Francis did not know what the St. George ribbon was when it was placed on him by a Russian politician earlier this week because the ribbon is unknown outside of the former Soviet Union.

20:43 7.5.2016

A large protest in central Prague over the visit by the pro-Putin biker group Night Wolves:

19:50 7.5.2016

More than 100 Russian citizens have been barred from entering Ukraine since the beginning of May:

19:49 7.5.2016

19:48 7.5.2016

19:47 7.5.2016

A court in Sumy has stopped the decommunization process of renaming the streets of the city based on a complaint filed by an opposition politician.

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