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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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Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):​

13:05 7.12.2015
Hennadiy Korban
Hennadiy Korban

Arrested Ukrainian Politician Korban Hospitalized With Chest Pains

A jailed Ukrainian politician, Hennadiy Korban, has been hospitalized with what his aides have described as chest pains.

Korban's press secretary Yevhenia Kravchuk said on December 7 that the leader the Ukrainian Union of Patriots party (UKROP) was rushed to a hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk overnight.

Kravchuk quoted Korban's lawyer, Yevhen Pashko, as saying that Korban was diagnosed with coronary artery disease.

The 45-year-old Korban was detained on October 31 on suspicion of kidnapping, embezzlement, and having ties with organized crime.

On November 6, Korban was placed under house arrest until December 31.

Korban, a former deputy governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, and his supporters insist that his arrest is politically motivated.

Korban's party, UKROP, was officially registered in September 2014.

With reporting by UNIAN
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