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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)

23:39 23.4.2016

A report on the effects of radiation from the Chernobyl disaster"

23:38 23.4.2016

Experts discuss new approaches to efforts to help the Ukrainian economy:

23:36 23.4.2016

A report on how the unexplained explosions in the Kherson region, close to Crimea, are causing great concern among people there.

23:32 23.4.2016

Pro-Russia separatists in Luhansk have reached some conclusions about those responsible for the December assassination of Cossack leader Pavel Dromov:

23:28 23.4.2016

NATO will strengthen its assistance to Ukraine for enhancing its security and sovereignty:

23:26 23.4.2016

The Ukrainian Military Prosecutor's Office says there have been 138 noncombat deaths among soldiers in eastern Ukraine due to drunkenness.

23:24 23.4.2016

Ukrainian subtitles for RFE/RL's salute to William Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago today:

23:22 23.4.2016

First lady Marina Poroshenko makes a call for Ukrainians to support singer Jamal at the May 10 Eurovision Song Contest's semifinals. Jamal is a Crimean Tatar whose song is called 1944 and is about Stalin's deportation of the Crimean Tatars.

23:18 23.4.2016

An anti-Russia protest in Yerevan ahead of a visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

18:10 23.4.2016

An interesting piece about the history of Crimea:

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