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

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

September 29, 2016 07:28 CET

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)

15:35 27.10.2015

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16:47 27.10.2015

17:04 27.10.2015

17:37 27.10.2015

00:13 28.10.2015

OSCE special representative in Ukraine, Martin Sajdik, is in Minsk to moderate talks on payments for coal deliveries in eastern Ukraine.

00:15 28.10.2015

Counting ballots from Sunday's local elections continues, as does preparation for the next round of the elections:

00:20 28.10.2015

Russian soldiers in the Donbas -- 'No!'

00:23 28.10.2015

A man in the Donetsk region controlled by Russian-backed separatists uses an ax to chip away the Ukrainian coat-of-arms on a building.

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