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)

22:49 3.9.2016

At a rally in Kyiv today, activists urged G20 leaders to encourage Russian officials to release Ukrainians being held as political prisoners, including Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov.

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A Radio Svoboda report on Ukraine's positive bilateral trade numbers with Germany:

22:56 3.9.2016

A video from the OSCE's SMM Ukraine about the security situation in the Donbas region:

22:58 3.9.2016

Francis Fukuyama on reforming Ukraine:

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23:01 3.9.2016

Radio Svoboda reports on the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper's story on Nadia Savchenko's presidential ambitions:

23:02 3.9.2016

President Poroshenko on the prospects of receiving the next tranche of money from the IMF:

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