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)

15:02 5.10.2015

15:01 5.10.2015

14:57 5.10.2015

Kyiv's envoy to the EU, Kostyantyn Yeliseyev:

14:34 5.10.2015

Flash from Interfax:

KYIV SEES NO NEED TO PASS NEW LAWS ON AMNESTY, SPECIAL STATUS OF DONBAS,
LEGISLATION ALREADY CREATED - UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION

14:16 5.10.2015

11:52 5.10.2015

Biggest news today:

Ukraine starts light weapons withdrawal in east: military

Ukraine has started withdrawing tanks and light artillery from the frontline in the eastern region of Luhansk in accordance with a recent agreement with pro-Russian separatists, the Ukrainian military said on Monday.

11:04 5.10.2015

World Bank sanguine on Ukraine:

10:15 5.10.2015

From Sputnik:

10:10 5.10.2015

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