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)

08:23 28.12.2015

Dimiter Kenarov's piece on Crimea for the The New York Times has, not surprisingly, raised some hackles:

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11:06 28.12.2015

Decent little photo essay here:

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12:10 28.12.2015

The increased number of flash points on today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone (courtesy of Ukraine's Defense Ministry) reflects how things have been heating up there recently (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):

12:11 28.12.2015

In today's Daily Vertical, Brian Whitmore also gives us his take on the recent uptick in violence in eastern Ukraine:

The Daily Vertical: War Returns To Donbas

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14:01 28.12.2015

Dmytro Yarosh left the Right Sector on November 11

14:04 28.12.2015

Another sign that things are hotting up in the Donbas?

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