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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A report on the effects of radiation from the Chernobyl disaster"

23:40 23.4.2016

A Radio Svoboda report on a polio outbreak in Ukraine:

23:43 23.4.2016

Citizens in Zaporizhzhya have donated a mobile dentistry truck to be sent to the fighting zone in eastern Ukraine:

23:46 23.4.2016

Activists in Kyiv today held a protest and offered their own reform plan to the government:

23:51 23.4.2016

Vox pop on the possible appointment to the government of Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko:

23:53 23.4.2016

A Radio Svoboda report from occupied Simferopol:

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That concludes our live-blog for April 23. Please join us again tomorrow.

10:44 24.4.2016

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