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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)

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Here's an item that's been sent to us by RFE/RL's correspondent in Brussels:

EU Diplomats Agree To Extend Sanctions On Yanukovych, Associates

Former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych (file photo)
Former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych (file photo)

BRUSSELS -- European Union ambassadors have decided to extend an asset freeze against former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and 15 of his close associates for at least one additional year.

The restrictive measures were first put in place in March 2014 after Yanukovych fled Ukraine during the Euromaidan protests against his government.

Other prominent figures on the EU blacklist for the alleged misappropriation of Ukrainian state funds include two former prime ministers, Mykola Azarov and Serhiy Arbuzov, and the former head of Yanukovych's presidential administration, Andriy Kliuiev.

EU officials say Ukraine's former Health Minister Raisa Bohatyriova was removed from the blacklist because she has returned stolen assets to the Ukrainian authorities.

EU ministers meeting in Brussels on March 4 are expected to approve the extension of the sanctions at a meeting in Brussels.

If approved, the extension would become official when it is published in the EU's official journal on March 5.

Based on reporting by Rikard Jozwiak in Brussels
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