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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
10:49 22.3.2014
Russian TV anchor Dmitry Kiselyov is miffed that he was included on EU sanctions list. Says "slapping sanctions on journalists is the lowest thing to do" and "a blatant attack on freedom of speech."
10:42 22.3.2014
This just in rom RFE/RL's News Desk:

News agencies report that German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has denounced Russia's "attempt to splinter Europe" by staging a disputed independence referendum in the Ukrainian southern region of Crimea. Steinmeier spoke to reporters in Kyiv on Saturday after meeting Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov..
10:40 22.3.2014
Latest from the wires:

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has denounced Russia's "attempt to splinter Europe" by staging a disputed independence referendum in the southern Ukrainian region of Crimea. Steinmeier was speaking to reporters in Kyiv after meeting with Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov.
10:23 22.3.2014
Ukrainian soldiers still in Crimea fear they may die there:
10:11 22.3.2014
Europe's "soft power" continues to rumble on, just possibly.
10:10 22.3.2014
09:30 22.3.2014
Crimea's Tatars continue to resist Russia's takeover of the peninsula:
09:19 22.3.2014
From the agencies, via our news desk:

Russia says European Union sanctions imposed on 12 Russians and Ukrainians on Friday over the Crimean crisis were "divorced from reality." Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Saturday that Russia reserves the right answer reciprocally. In a separate statement, the ministry said Moscow hopes the decision to send to Ukraine a monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will help resolve the "internal Ukrainian crisis" and stop “nationalist banditry.” It added that the "mission's mandate reflects the new political and legal realities and does not extend to Crimea and Sevastopol, which have become part of Russia." The OSCE had said the observer team will gather information over six months on the security situation "throughout” Ukraine.
21:41 21.3.2014
Barring any breaking news, this concludes our live blogging for March 21.
20:58 21.3.2014
Putin's new media boss on the junket he'd rather forget:

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