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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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Voters headed to the polls on November 15 to choose mayors and council representatives in Kyiv and 28 other cities across the country.

Election authorities said voter turnout was at 34 percent.

Preliminary results showed Vitali Klitschko being reelected as mayor of the capital, Kyiv.

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Russia says it has proposed a solution to its debt standoff with Kyiv:

Russia says it is putting forward a proposal to resolve a debt dispute with Ukraine.

Speaking to reporters during a summit of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies in southern Turkey, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on November 16 that Moscow had talked to the International Monetary Fund about its proposal.

He didn't disclose any details.

Ukraine has reached a $15 billion restructuring agreement with private foreign creditors, while threatening a default unless Russia accepts the terms.

Moscow argues that Ukraine's $3 billion debt to Russia, which comes due in December, is sovereign and not subject to restructuring talks with commercial lenders.

"We consider it unacceptable for us to talk about a restructuring that's similar to commercial lenders, which is why we made our own suggestion," Siluanov said. (Interfax, Bloomberg.com)

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