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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22:06 7.5.2016

Another report on the visit by the pro-Putin biker gang Night Wolves to Prague:

22:09 7.5.2016

The Ukrainian prosecutor's office is investigating 10 cases of either the murder or disappearance of a Crimean Tatar since the Russian occupation of Crimea.

22:11 7.5.2016

Of the 327 towns or villages renamed under Ukraine's decommunization law, only two of them have challenged the renaming in court.

22:21 7.5.2016

That concludes our live blogging on Ukraine for today. Please join us again tomorrow for more coverage.

09:30 8.5.2016

10:38 8.5.2016

Tomorrow is Victory Day in Ukraine and across the former Soviet Union.

14:24 8.5.2016

16:36 8.5.2016

Timothy Snyder lecture here:

19:28 8.5.2016

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