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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)

09:54 18.9.2016

British pro-Russia correspondent Graham Phillips has been raising hackles again it seems...

09:52 18.9.2016

09:50 18.9.2016

From the Swedish foreign minister:

09:49 18.9.2016

A tweet from Al-Jazeera's correspondent:

08:20 18.9.2016

Good morning, we'll start the live blog this morning with a few of the things that caught our eye overnight:

First, a tweet from the OSCE's Representative of Freedom of the Media:

And then this from the spokeswoman for Ukraine's Foreign Ministry

And here's more on the Ukrainian captives who were freed by separatists yesterday, including one man who is blind and has had his arms amputated:

21:37 17.9.2016

We are now closing the live blog for today. Until we resume again tomorrow morning, you can catch up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.

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20:02 17.9.2016

Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):

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