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 Economist takes an interesting look at the crucial city of Kharkiv:

16:44 29.5.2016

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Dmitry Kiselyov seems to be laying it on thick (like he does every Sunday):

15:32 29.5.2016

With Kyiv reporting intensified fighting in eastern Ukraine, here is a map from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry of the situation in the Donbas conflict zone today. It does seem to indicate that things are hotting up there. (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE)

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