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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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That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Saturday, October 31. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage.

09:56 1.11.2015

Good morning. The main news from overnight:

Security forces in Ukraine have arrested Hennadiy Korban, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Kyiv earlier this month.

Officials say Korban, who is the head of the UKROP party and who is a close associate of former Dnipropetrovsk Governor and oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskiy, was arrested in Dnipropetrovsk on October 31 on suspicion of participating in an organized crime group.

UKROP issued a statement saying that the arrest and searches of the party's offices and the homes of party officials were an act of "political repression."

Korban is accused of involvement in several kidnappings when he served as deputy governor of Dnipropetrovsk in 2014-15. He is also accused of stealing about $1.7 million from a fund earmarked for Ukrainian soldiers fighting against Russia-back separatists in eastern Ukraine.

About 500 security officers were involved in the operation, and an unknown number of other arrests were also made.

Kolomoyskiy, Ukraine's second-richest man, served briefly as head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and was credited with preventing the spread of separatist sentiment in the region.

But President Petro Poroshenko dismissed him in 2014, accusing him of setting up a private militia and trying to take over a state-affiliated oil company.

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