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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)

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Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, courtesy of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):

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Here's a video of Nadia Savchenko receiving the court's verdict today:

Savchenko Faces Murder Verdict In Russian Court

A court in Russia's southern region of Rostov appears to have found the Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko guilty of complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine in 2014, Russian news agencies reported. The ruling will not be official until the judge finishes reading it, but his wording strongly indicated that the court accepted the prosecution's accusations, pointing a guilty verdict.

Savchenko Faces Murder Verdict In Russian Court
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Here's an item from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service

Ukraine Detains Suspect In Disappearance Of Russian Soldier's Lawyer

KYIV -- Ukrainian authorities have detained a man suspected of involvement in the disappearance of the lawyer of a Russian citizen who is on trial for allegedly fighting alongside separatists in Ukraine's east.

Ukraine's Deputy Prosecutor-General Anatoliy Matios said on March 20 that the suspect, a Ukrainian citizen, had been detained in the city of Odesa.

Matios said the man had "confessed" that lawyer Yuriy Hrabovskiy's "kidnapping" had been organized by Russia's Federal Security Service.

Hrabovskiy went missing in Odesa on March 5.

His client, Aleksandr Aleksandrov, and another Russian citizen, Yevgeny Yerofeyev, were detained in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region in May 2015 and later charged with terrorism.

The two men first admitted in a video that they were on active duty with the Russian military when they were captured, but later retracted that.

Moscow contends Yerofeyev and Aleksandrov were not serving in the country's armed forces when they were detained by Ukrainian forces.

With reporting by "112 Ukraina" TV channel
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