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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
19:13 16.3.2014
Reuters quotes the White House in Washington as saying that "we are long past the days" when the world would "stand quietly by while one country forcibly seizes the territory of another."

It also says that Russia will face "increasing costs" for its military intervention and alleged violation of international law in Ukraine.
19:16 16.3.2014
Russia's RIA news agency has been quoted as reporting that exit polls suggest 93 percent of votes in the Crimean referendum -- which Kyiv and the West reject as illegitimate -- favored joining the Russian Federation.
19:18 16.3.2014
Polls have reportedly closed in Crimea.
19:26 16.3.2014
In Washington, the White House has rejected the vote as a process held under "threats of violence and intimidation" by the Russian military.
19:33 16.3.2014
No journalists are being allowed to observe the counting of votes at polling stations in Crimea, according to RFE/RL's Russian Service.
19:40 16.3.2014
19:42 16.3.2014
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