Accessibility links

Breaking News
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)

08:43 9.10.2015

08:44 9.10.2015

08:49 9.10.2015
Victoria Nuland
Victoria Nuland

U.S. Keeps Tough Line On Russia Despite Ukraine Truce

Victoria Nuland, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, has said the United States will maintain sanctions imposed on Russia over its actions in Ukraine until the terms of the Minsk peace plan are fully implemented.

Nuland was speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 8, as the cease-fire agreed in Minsk in February has been widely upheld in the past month.

The conflict between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists has killed more than 7,900 people since April 2014.

Nuland also said that sanctions imposed on Russia after it annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 would remain in place until the Kremlin agrees to withdraw Russian forces.

"We will judge Russia and the separatists by their actions, not their words," she said.

Based on reporting by AFP and Reuters
10:02 9.10.2015

10:03 9.10.2015

10:04 9.10.2015

10:21 9.10.2015

11:02 9.10.2015

11:05 9.10.2015

12:10 9.10.2015
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev (right) meets with his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, in Astana.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev (right) meets with his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, in Astana.

Poroshenko, Nazarbaev Discuss Ties, Ukraine Crisis In Astana

ASTANA -- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbaev, have discussed bilateral ties in Astana.

The two leaders on October 9 also discussed the situation in Ukraine's east, where the military conflict between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian armed forces has left more than 7,900 dead since April 2014.

Poroshenko, who arrived in the Kazakh capital on October 8, said after the talks that the current cease-fire in Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions give reasons for "cautious optimism" for full implementation of the conflict-regulation agreement reached in Minsk in February.

Nazarbaev said his country supports the Minsk process, stressing that "there is no alternative" to a peaceful resolution of the crisis.

Nazarbaev added that Kazakhstan will continue sending food to Ukraine's east and will financially support the regions hit by the conflict through the International Red Cross.

Load more

XS
SM
MD
LG