Accessibility links

Breaking News
Ten-year-old Sasha stands in a bomb shelter in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
Ten-year-old Sasha stands in a bomb shelter in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

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)

10:30 16.1.2016

10:44 16.1.2016

12:32 16.1.2016

12:40 16.1.2016

14:18 16.1.2016

Here is a map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, courtesy of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):

17:20 16.1.2016

17:33 16.1.2016

The Kyiv Post wrote a brief, but relevant, op-ed this week warning of the cyber threat Ukraine could face from Russia:

Russia’s proxies don’t include just gun-toting separatists in eastern Ukraine; scores of them sit behind computer screens, ready to menace. They have drastically upped their game with sophisticated malware. And this seems to be a response to the lower-tech knocking out of Ukrainian electricity to Russian-occupied Crimea, tacitly accepted by Ukraine’s authorities.

Read the entire article here

17:35 16.1.2016

17:37 16.1.2016

17:40 16.1.2016

This image is an emotional uppercut, to say the least:

Load more

XS
SM
MD
LG