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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
21:05 26.3.2014
Barring any breaking news, that ends our blogging for March 26.
20:41 26.3.2014
From the wires, via our news desk:
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said Russia has moved forces closer to the border with Ukraine in recent days despite assurances it would not invade. At a meeting with British counterpart Phillip Hammond Wednesday, Hagel said, "They [the Russians] continue to build up their forces." Hagel said he had received guarantees from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu last week that Russia would not invade Ukraine. Hammond said "other Russian players, including Minister Shoigu, may express their views, but it's a moot point." Hammond added, "All evidence suggests that the Russian agenda is being very much run by President Putin personally."
20:34 26.3.2014
La Sevastopol?
20:32 26.3.2014
CNN on the cyberwar over Crimea.
20:05 26.3.2014
Andrei Zubov, a 62-year-old historian and professor of philosophy at the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Affairs (MGIMO), once compared Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.
19:59 26.3.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service on Right Sektor squaring off against the police after the death of Oleksandr Muzychko (in Ukrainian).
19:55 26.3.2014
Interesting. Resistance, or a new political "movement"?
18:58 26.3.2014
U.S. President Barack Obama says that "in the 21st century, the borders of Europe cannot be redrawn with force."
Obama: 'The Contest Of Ideas Continues'
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