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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)

16:47 8.1.2016
Home Schooling Amid A Military Standoff In Eastern Ukraine
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Navigating Ukraine's Front Lines On The Way To School

The village of Zaytseve, near Horlivka in eastern Ukraine, is split down the middle by checkpoints and armed forces. Some children are separated from their school by the front lines, so they study and play at home, confined by the conditions of war.

16:49 8.1.2016

Feature from Tony Wesolowsky on Ihor Kolomoyskiy taking Russia to court to try to get his seized assets back.

17:51 8.1.2016

20:41 8.1.2016

20:52 8.1.2016

Barring any major developments, that ends the live blog for today.

15:06 9.1.2016

A poll taken in the Netherlands shows that a majority of those surveyed are against ratification of the EU Association Agreement for Ukraine. A nonbinding vote will be held in Holland on April 6.

15:11 9.1.2016

A Radio Svodoba report on the volunteers from the St. Egidio Community who held a Christmas programs and dinners for homeless, poor families, and the elderly in Lviv, Kyiv, and Ivano-Frankivsk.

15:19 9.1.2016

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says failure to pass the referendum in the Netherlands on Ukraine's Association Agreement could spark a "continental crisis."

15:22 9.1.2016

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has requested that an Italian magazine print a correction to a map that identified Crimea as being Russian territory.

15:24 9.1.2016

A Radio Svoboda report on the return of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva to Sevastopol, Crimea, after a tour of duty in Syria.

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