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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)

00:02 29.6.2016

00:00 29.6.2016

A report on Ukraine's progress in building a professional military force:

23:58 28.6.2016

23:58 28.6.2016

A report on Ukraine's possibilities of one-day joining the EU:

23:55 28.6.2016

A report on the alleged hindering of journalists' work in Ukraine:

23:54 28.6.2016

A Radio Svaboda report about some fighting in Donbas:

23:52 28.6.2016

The deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Dmitry Shymkiv, said in an interview with VOA today that Ukraine will continue along the "European integration course."

23:50 28.6.2016

Yatsenyuk met with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden today in Washington:

23:48 28.6.2016

23:22 28.6.2016

Former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk tweets that "reform of the defense sector remains one of the key priorities for Ukraine and the entire world. We protect not only this country -- but also Europe."

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