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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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12:09 29.5.2016

Here's another development in this story, which broke last week:

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10:34 29.5.2016

This tragic fire is naturally making a lot of the headlines in Ukraine. It doesn't seem to be related to the crisis, but here's an item from our news desk to let you know what's been happening in any event:

Seventeen Die In Fire At Ukraine Home For Elderly

Ukrainian firefighters search through the rubble at an assisted-living facility for old people, where at least 17 died when a fire ripped through the building in the early hours of the morning on May 29.
Ukrainian firefighters search through the rubble at an assisted-living facility for old people, where at least 17 died when a fire ripped through the building in the early hours of the morning on May 29.

At least seventeen people have died and one is missing after a fire broke out at a home for the elderly in a village near Kyiv, Ukraine's state emergency service said in a statement on May 29.

"Emergency services units saved 18 people, five of whom have been hospitalized with burns of varying degrees of severity," the Ukrainian emergencies ministry said in a statement.

It said the fire broke out in the early morning hours of May 29 in a privately-owned two-story building, which housed 35 people, in the village of Litochky, 50 kilometers north of Kyiv.

Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman expressed condolences to the families of those who died in the "terrible tragedy" and and called for an immediate investigation into the cause of the fire.

Based on reporting by Reuters and AFP
09:52 29.5.2016

Good morning. We'll start the live blog this morning with some of the tweets that caught our eye overnight:

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