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)
Many of you are probably familiar with Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov, whose firsthand account of the Euromaidan protests, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kyiv, sold well internationally. Here he is giving his take on today's local elections. (in English):
