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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's an update from our news desk:

The Ukrainian military says one of its soldiers has been killed in a landmine blast in the country's east.

Military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said another serviceman was wounded in the September 26 incident near the rebel-controlled town of Horlivka, 25 kilometers northeast of Donetsk.

Motuzyanyk also said that a cease-fire was "still holding" in eastern Ukraine, adding: "The enemy has not been using any heavy weapons, tanks, mortars, or artillery against the Ukrainian army for almost a month."

Fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists has killed more than 7,900 people in Ukraine's east since April 2014.

(AFP, Interfax)

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