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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)

19:00 20.9.2016

That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage. Thanks for reading and take care.

18:36 20.9.2016

Something a little lighter as we wind up the live-blog day:

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More by RFE/RL's Tom Balmforth on that killing in Moscow:

Yevhen Zhylin
Yevhen Zhylin

Prominent Ukrainian Anti-Maidan Activist Killed In Moscow Restaurant

By Tom Balmforth

MOSCOW -- Russian investigators say a prominent Ukrainian separatist has been shot dead in an upscale restaurant outside Moscow by a gunman disguised in a fake moustache and a panama hat.

Investigators said the most likely motive in the September 19 slaying of 40-year-old Yevhen Zhylin, who is sought by authorities in his native Ukraine on terrorism charges, is a business dispute, although they added that they were exploring other possible motives that include personal enmity. http://mosobl.sledcom.ru/news/item/1067819/

Authorities said the gunman waited 20 minutes at a neighboring table for Zhylin, who arrived with another man for a business meeting. After they placed their order, the suspect rose, approached them, and opened fire.

Zhylin reportedly died on the scene, while the second man, identified by local media as Andrei Kozyrev, is hospitalized in critical condition.

Read the full story here.

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