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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
14:21 8.3.2014
A video showing Russians in Ukraine pleading with Moscow to "stop saving us."
14:15 8.3.2014
Photos have been posted of a military convoy from Kerch to Simferopol:

14:13 8.3.2014
14:12 8.3.2014
Russian website set up to "expose traitors" who oppose intervention in Ukraine.

Hat tip to Andrei Soldatov for flagging this:

14:01 8.3.2014
14:00 8.3.2014
Link to a live cam outside the Donetsk Oblast Administration. Pro-Russian demonstrators currently marching to building;
13:58 8.3.2014
13:52 8.3.2014
Meanwhile in Donetsk, RFE/RL's Tom Balmforth says a column of a few thousand pro-Russia demonstrators just walked down the city's central street from Lenin Square on their way to the regional administration building.
13:46 8.3.2014
Latest meme emerging from Moscow. Russians of military age traveling to Ukraine are being "beaten, tortured, and detained" by Ukrainian military and Rights Sector.

Here's a Facebook post by Russian nationalist Alksandr Dugin:


And meanwhile, Kremlin mouthpiece Sergei Markov claims war could be imminent

13:17 8.3.2014

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