Ten-year-old Sasha stands in a bomb shelter in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

September 29, 2016 05:28 GMT

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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More on the altercations at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv

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The Moscow-appointed prosecutor-general in Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, casts her vote in the Duma elections with her 11-year-old daughter:

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Probably not a big deal in the general scheme of things, but interesting nonetheless. This video from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service appears to show an altercation between a pro-Ukrainian activist and a man who showed up at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv to vote in Duma elections. The activist was eventually arrested. (The video has no subtitles)

Altercation Near The Russian Embassy In Kyiv

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