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)

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Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has protested pressure by Russia's Migration Service in Chechnya on detained Ukrainian citizens Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klyha:

22:34 25.3.2016

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President Poroshenko on his demobilization decree:

22:26 25.3.2016

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The Ukrainian military says separatist forces fired on government troops 16 times today in eastern Ukraine. It added that no Ukrainian troops were killed but that six were injured:

22:17 25.3.2016

Former Prime Minister Tymoshenko says there is a possibility that Savchenko could be exchanged and transferred back to Ukraine:

22:15 25.3.2016

A report that Savchenko's health has deteriorated:

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