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)

20:37 20.7.2016

This links to a statement from President Petro Poroshenko's office on the killing of journalist Pavel Sheremet:

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Boris Nemtsov with Pavel Sheremet. Now both no longer with us...

18:09 20.7.2016

Here's a live feed from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service of a memorial event being held for slain journalist Pavel Sheremet on Kyiv's Independence Square:

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From RFE/RL's correspondent in Kyiv:

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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)