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)

23:21 3.9.2016

A quiz on Ukrainian history:

23:23 3.9.2016

An activist supporting detained Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov was detained in St. Petersburg:

23:25 3.9.2016

Ukrainian PM Hroysman says the depreciation of the country's currency is the result of "seasonal fluctuations":

23:28 3.9.2016

Excerpts from the diary of journalist Maria Varfolomeyeva, who was held captive by separatists in Luhansk for more than one year:

23:30 3.9.2016

A report on alleged Russian agents working to destabilize things in Ukraine:

23:33 3.9.2016

23:34 3.9.2016

A video showing some 700 army cadets taking their military oath in Kviv:

23:55 3.9.2016

That concludes our live blog for today. Please join us again tomorrow for more coverage of events in Ukraine.

12:25 4.9.2016

Arlen is 6 years old and today is the first time he went to school. After annexation of Crimea by Russian Federation his family moved to Kiev. They have not been home for about two years.

12:38 4.9.2016

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