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)

11:02 27.7.2016

Metal detectors being used to screen Orthodox marchers:

10:58 27.7.2016

10:57 27.7.2016

A corruption case has been brought by Russian authorities against an activist from the "Russian Spring" in Crimea:

10:47 27.7.2016

Ukrainian PM Hroysman wants his acting health minister to be officially approved:

10:45 27.7.2016

Photos from the Sea Breeze 2016 multinational military maneuvers:

10:28 27.7.2016

An estimated 700 Orthodox pilgrims had arrived in Kyiv by bus early this morning:

10:27 27.7.2016

A large police presence in central Kyiv ahead of the Orthodox marchers arrival today:

00:09 27.7.2016

That concludes our live-blogging for today. Please join us again tomorrow for more news on Ukraine.

00:09 27.7.2016

A political cartoonist's take on the controversial march by pro-Russia Orthodox worshipers:

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