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

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

September 29, 2016 05:28 GMT

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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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There were a number of Ukrainians on the streets of New York today protesting Vladimir Putin's visit to the UN. RFE/RL's Russian Service was there:

Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in New York City to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin's appearance at the United Nation's General Assembly. Among those at the rally on September 27 were Ukrainian Americans. They demanded the Russian leader return Crimea to Ukraine after annexing the peninsula last year.

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