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Ukraine's acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya speaks to the UN General Assembly on March 27.
Ukraine's acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya speaks to the UN General Assembly on March 27.

Live Blog: UN Backs Ukraine Integrity

Final Summary For March 27

-- The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution that affirms Ukraine's territorial integrity.

-- The IMF has announced "a staff-level agreement" with Kyiv on assistance of $14 billion-$18 billion in conjunction with a reform program that will "unlock" up to $27 billion over the next two years, pending final approval next month. Tthe U.S. Congress has also passed an aid bill for Ukraine.

-- Ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko has announced plans to run for president.

-- Members of the Right Sector have been holding a demonstration outside the Ukrainian parliament building to vent their anger at the killing of prominent member Oleksander Muzychko earlier in the week.

-- Six Ukrainian military officers detained by pro-Russian troops in Crimea have been released, including Colonel Yuliy Mamchur, but five others are still being held captive.

-- Anonymous sources quoted by CNN say U.S. intelligence "concludes it is more likely than previously thought that Russian forces will enter eastern Ukraine."

-- U.S. President Barack Obama, in the keynote speech of his visit to Europe, chided Russia for its use of "brute force" in Ukraine and vowed that a determined alliance of the United States and Europe will prevail over time.


*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv
12:51 19.3.2014
AFP quotes British Prime Minister David Cameron as saying that G7 nations meeting next week "should be discussing whether or not to expel Russia permanently from the G8 if further steps are taken" by Moscow to destabilize Ukraine.
12:45 19.3.2014
Acting Ukrainian Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh and First Deputy Prime Minister Vitaliy Yarema were barred from entering Crimea. The incident is being discussed at the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council's emergency session.
12:44 19.3.2014
Clips of Ukrainian troops who've set up camp near the Russian border.
Ukrainian Troops Set Up Camp Near Russian Border
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12:38 19.3.2014
Reuters quotes from a Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council statement saying it has opened a session devoted to "the state of Ukraine's national security and measures to neutralize foreign and domestic political threats."
12:36 19.3.2014
RFE/RL Brussels correspondent Rikard Jozwiak quotes EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn on an EU decision to provide further aid to Ukraine.

"Today we adopted a proposal to provide Ukraine with a further 1 billion euros in micro-financial assistance (MFA) in addition to the already decided and available loan of MFA of 610 million euros," Rehn said.
12:36 19.3.2014
12:33 19.3.2014
Donations are being collected for the family of Reshat Ametov, the Crimean Tatar whose body was found last week near Simferopol with signs of torture. Ametov leaves behind a wife and three small children.
12:32 19.3.2014
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier calls in Berlin for a quick mandate for a mission of OSCE observers to Ukraine, saying: "We need an observer mission now and in my conversations this morning I said agreement on a mandate must take place within the next 24 hours. That way, the first observers -- among them also 20 Germans who could leave tomorrow -- could start immediately tomorrow."

He adds that "it makes no sense to send an observer mission the week after the next or next month."
12:26 19.3.2014
"Hancuffed and a bag over the head." RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent Levko Stek recounts his brief kidnapping by a group of armed men in Crimea.

12:25 19.3.2014
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry doesn't confirm to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service that Admiral Serhiy Hayduk, commander of the navy, is in Russian hands, but does acknowledge that Kyiv is trying to determine his whereabouts.

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