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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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17:27 17.5.2016

RFE/RL data journalist Carlos Coelho has given us a nice inforgraphic on the building of Russia's bridge to the Crimean Peninsula:

Construction has started on the 19-kilometer bridge aimed at bypassing Ukraine that will connect Kerch, in annexed Crimea, to Russia. It's expected to open in December 2018. The connection is expected to cost the Russian budget some 283-349 billion rubles ($4.5-5.5 billion). A 40-km highway to link the new bridge with the Krasnodar region of Russia has also been announced.

View the infographic here

15:36 17.5.2016

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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