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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)

11:12 29.6.2016

Poles Balance Security And Trade On Russian Border

Faced with and increasingly aggressive Russia, NATO leaders are expected to approve a plan to deploy troops to the Baltic states and Poland at their July summit in Warsaw. Anxious Poles living next to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad say they welcome the move. But with their local economies dependent on Russian shoppers, they also hope to keep relations with their northern neighbors as friendly as possible. (Camera: Marek Hajduk, Producer: Stuart Greer)

Poles Balance Security And Trade On Russian Border
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Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):​

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