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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)

11:36 28.3.2016

A tweet about parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Groysman, a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko and the man Ukrainian media say is the leading candidate to replace curent Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk:

10:06 28.3.2016

Good morning. Here's a couple of tweets to help you catch up with what's been happening since we were here last:

00:08 28.3.2016

We are now closing the live blog for today. Until we resume again tomorrow morning, you can catch up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.

00:05 28.3.2016

00:02 28.3.2016

Presumably not directly related to the crisis, but a terrible accident all the same...

22:22 27.3.2016

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21:32 27.3.2016

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20:24 27.3.2016

Interesting...

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