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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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Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):​

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More from RFE/RL's News Desk on the attack against Plotnitsky:

Igor Plotnitsky
Igor Plotnitsky

Ukraine Separatist Leader Injured In Attack

The leader of a Russia-backed separatist group in eastern Ukraine has been injured in an assassination attempt, the separatists say.

Igor Plotnitsky, the head of a group that calls itself the Luhansk People's Republic, "was wounded this morning as a result of a powerful explosion that occurred near his car," the official separatists' news agency reported on August 6.

The report said Plotnitsky was being treated at a local hospital along with several other people who suffered injuries in the blast in the city of Luhansk.

A top official in the group, Serhiy Kozlov, said Plotnitsky was in stable condition and that there is no threat to his life.

Fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk has killed more than 9,500 people since April 2014.

Based on reporting by AFP, TASS, and Interfax
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