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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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Bullet wounds, shrapnel, loss of blood -- it's all in a day's work for medical volunteers in Avdiyivka, where a cease-fire between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists often exists in name only. (Levko Stek and Marian Kushnir, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)

A Day With Ukraine's Frontline Medics
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The pro-Russian militants said that UN representative Yuriy Suprun was 'convicted of war crimes,' while a historian Ihor Kozlovskiy was a 'spy,' refusing to release both men, as reported by Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, Ukrainian President's envoy on a peaceful settlement of the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Iryna Herashchenko, first deputy chairwoman of the Ukrainian parliament.

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