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)

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:

21:38 22.1.2016

Poroshenko has declared 2017 the year commemorating the 1917-1921 Ukrainian revolution:

21:47 22.1.2016

21:49 22.1.2016

The EBRD announces a plan to help bring business to Kyiv.

21:50 22.1.2016

Plans in occupied Sevastopol to put up a monument to Stalin:

21:52 22.1.2016

21:55 22.1.2016

The ruble traded for much of today at 78 to the dollar and more than 84 rubles for one euro.

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