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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)

09:53 23.9.2016

It seems there's been yet another altercation in the Ukrainian parliament. RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has this video of proceedings:

Politicians Fight In Ukrainian Parliament

Ukrainian parliamentary deputy Aleksey Goncharenko from the ruling coalition scuffled with the Opposition Bloc's Mykola Skoryk on September 23. The fight reportedly broke out when Goncharenko presented Skoryk with a pack of dried bread, hinting he would soon need it. Dried bread is common prison fare throughout the former Soviet space. Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko recently said he intends to strip Skoryk of his parliamentary immunity. The opposition politician has been accused of involvement in riots in Odesa in February 2014. (natural sound)

Politicians Fight In Ukrainian Parliament
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06:36 23.9.2016

Good morning,

We'll get the live blog rolling today with a few of the things that caught or eye overnight:

A tweet from the spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs:

Fallout from the Dutch referendum a few months ago:

And then there's this:

20:48 22.9.2016

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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