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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
16:02 16.3.2014
This babushka is going viral.

"Fear is a slave mentality!!!"



Here is video footage, posted March 15, of her getting knocked down during a confrontation with Crimean self-defense forces.

16:07 16.3.2014
The "Kyiv Post" indirectly quotes Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as saying at an emergency cabinet meeting that Ukraine's eastern border with Russia has been almost completely shut down, with what the paper describes as "many Russians...refused entry to Ukraine if they are suspected by border guards of being sent to Ukraine to stir up demonstrations or cause violent unrest."
16:25 16.3.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service quotes a statement from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic saying three priests have gone missing in Crimea. ​
16:34 16.3.2014
16:35 16.3.2014
16:40 16.3.2014
Doctored photo, obviously. :-))
16:41 16.3.2014
16:43 16.3.2014
From agencies Reuters, AFP, and dpa (paraphrased):

The United States and the European Union have reiterated they will not recognize the results of Crimea's referendum on seceding from Ukraine. A U.S. official said that Secretary of State John Kerry, in a telephone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on March 16, urged Moscow to back a political solution to the Ukraine crisis. In Brussels, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy in a joint statement reiterated the 28-nation bloc considers the referendum illegal. They said EU foreign ministers will decide on possible measures in response on March 17.
16:59 16.3.2014
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaking at a cabinet meeting in Kyiv on March 16, as quoted by Reuters:

"All cheerleaders of separatism and division who now, shielded by Russian soldiers, are attempting to destroy Ukrainian independence, [should know that] we will find them all -- regardless if it takes a year or two years -- we will bring them to justice and we will try them at the Ukrainian and international courts. The earth will burn under their feet."

"Together with our Western partners we will do everything possible to make sure that everyone who today feels protected enough by Russian guns to do whatever they please knows that they will have to answer for separatism and attempts to destroy the constitutional order. No place in the world will be safe enough for them to disregard the law. And Russia will not save them."

"Considering the current threat on Ukrainian borders and the military aggression by the Russian Federation we must make a decision today about immediate set up of a reserve fund designating it to finance mobilization, modernization, and heightening the state of military readiness of interior troops, Defense Ministry, and state border guards."
17:09 16.3.2014
Making the rounds on YouTube today: "Good-bye Ukraine"

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