Ten-year-old Sasha stands in a bomb shelter in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

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September 29, 2016 07:28 CET

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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)

16:29 11.8.2016

Brother Of Ukrainian Held By Russia Appeals To Kyiv For Help

The brother of Yevhen Panov, who was detained and charged by Russian authorities with preparing terror attacks in Crimea, has asked Ukrainian officials for help in securing his release. Panov, a Ukrainian citizen, is being held on the peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. His brother Igor Kotelyanets spoke to RFE/RL's Current Time TV.

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