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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)

16:10 4.4.2016

Poroshenko's response to #Panamapapers revelations:

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14:43 4.4.2016

Here's a Ukraine-related item on the so-called Panama Papers from our news desk:

Ukraine Radical Party Wants Impeachment Probe Into Poroshenko

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (file photo)
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (file photo)

The head of Ukraine's populist Radical party has called for an impeachment investigation into President Petro Poroshenko over allegations he used an offshore account to avoid tax.

In a televised interview on April 4, Oleh Lyashko said the Anticorruption Bureau (AKB) must investigate Poroshenko for allegedly hiding significant amounts of money in offshore accounts.

According to a massive leak of documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca over the weekend, Poroshenko has been tied to secret offshore companies on the British Virgin Islands.

The AKB said on April 4 that it has no power to begin an investigation against Poroshenko.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's office said it has seen no evidence that Poroshenko committed a crime based on the leaked documents.

Based on reporting on UNIAN and Reuters
13:17 4.4.2016

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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