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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)

10:13 28.8.2016

From our news desk:

Reports from Ukraine say Aleksandr Shchetinin, a Kyiv-based Russian journalist who founded the Novy Region news agency, has been found dead at his apartment.

Ukrainian police said they suspect Shchetinin’s death was a suicide.

Authorities said friends who visited Shchetinin’s apartment on Konstantinovskaya Street in Kyiv early on August 28 in order to congratulate him on his birthday found him seated in a chair on his balcony with a gunshot wound to the head and a gun on the ground beside him.

Police said Shchetinin also had written an email to a journalist colleague in which he declared his intention to kill himself.

Based on reporting by TASS, Interfax, UNIAN, and 112 Ukraine

10:13 28.8.2016

Opinon piece in Britain's Telegraph: Thanks to the EU's bungling, Russia will inevitably win in Ukraine

09:32 28.8.2016

19:31 27.8.2016

Barring any major developments, that ends the live blogging for today.

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The Power Vertical's latest blog post.

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Interesting...

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