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)

00:04 29.6.2016

That completes our coverage for today, June 28. Please join us again tomorrow.

00:03 29.6.2016

Ukrainian military reports the capture of eight separatist fighters in Donbas:

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

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:

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