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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)

21:51 21.2.2016

This ends our live blogging for February 21. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.

08:25 22.2.2016

The big news from overnight:

In Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, an office of the Russian Sberbank was torched late on February 21 shortly after would-be arsonists failed to set ablaze another Sberbank office in Lviv.

Lviv's local ZIK television channel reported that unidentified persons threw makeshift firebombs made from metal canisters at the bank offices.

One Sberbank office was engulfed in flames, while fire at the other was quickly extinguished by firefighters.

The attacks came a day after Ukrainian nationalists, celebrating the second anniverary of protests that ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, stormed the Kyiv offices of two Russian banks – smashing the windows and ransacking furniture and equipment inside.

Yanukovych fled Kyiv on February 21, 2014.

Parliament voted to formally remove him from office on February 22, 2014.

But political tensions have risen in Ukraine in recent weeks amid growing disenchantment with Kyiv’s pro-Western government over the slow pace of reforms.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk survived a no-confidence vote in parliament on February 16, after President Petro Poroshenko called for his resignation "to restore trust" in the government.

09:06 22.2.2016

Interesting Kyiv Post piece on the Right Sector splinter group, which has members camped out now in downtown Kyiv.

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