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

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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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It's been two years since the start of the battle for Donetsk airport between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists. It was the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the war in eastern Ukraine. Today, one family still living within view of the destroyed airport scratches out a living without utilities, jobs, or any guarantee of safety. (Zenovia Stefanyuk, RFE/RL's Current Time TV)

Life Outside The Ruins Of Donetsk's Airport

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