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)

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Putin appoints education minister as Ukraine envoy:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Dmitry Livanov as the president's envoy on trade and economic ties with Ukraine.

Putin accepted Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to appoint Livanov at a working meeting at Belbek Airport in Sevastopol, on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, on August 19.

Livanov had served since 2012 as education minister.

Putin also agreed with Medvedev to appoint Olga Vasilyeva as Russia's new education minister. Vasilyeva was deputy chief of the presidential directorate for public projects. (RIA Novosti, Interfax)

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Ukraine Besieged

Reports of Russian military build-ups near Ukraine's borders have raised fears that Moscow might be preparing for full-scale war.

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