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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21:10 22.1.2016

LGBT activists picket outside the court in Oblonskiy distict court in Kyiv:

21:12 22.1.2016

RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports on the quarantine in Dnipropetrovsk because of the deadly flu outbreak:

21:13 22.1.2016

21:19 22.1.2016

Ukrainian military officials say separatist forces fired on Ukrainian troops 17 times in the past day.

21:21 22.1.2016

U.S. officials repeat that only way for Western sanctions against Russia to be lifted is by fulfilling the Minsk agreement.

21:25 22.1.2016

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko met today with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

21:31 22.1.2016

A promo for RFE/RL's TV news program Crimean Realities:

21:36 22.1.2016

In a Kyiv district a memorial was unveiled for a famed cyborg -- one of the Ukrainian soldiers killed at the Donetsk airport:

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