Ten-year-old Sasha stands in a bomb shelter in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

September 29, 2016 07:28 CET

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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This ends our live blogging for June 22. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.

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Reports: U.S. envoy Nuland to meet with top Putin aide:

Russian state media report that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is scheduled to meet in Moscow on June 23 with an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Interfax and TASS both report that Nuland’s meeting would be with presidential aide Vladislav Surkov.

There was no immediate confirmation from Washington about the reports.

Surkov, a former deputy prime minister, is now Putin's personal adviser on Moscow's relationships with Ukraine and Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Nuland was in Kyiv on June 22 for talks with Ukrainian government officials about the situation in eastern Ukraine, where Russia-backed separatists are battling against Ukrainian government forces. (TASS, Interfax)

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