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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
10:46 21.3.2014
Visa and MasterCard have blocked transactions handled by sanction-hit Russian banks.

11:01 21.3.2014
11:09 21.3.2014
Agency reports via our news desk:

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow will refrain from imposing further retaliatory sanctions against Washington, one day after the United States introduced visa bans and asset freezes against Russians. The Russian Foreign Ministry released its own list on Thursday of nine Americans banned from entering Russia, including Senator John McCain, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House speaker John Boehner. Putin also said Friday in a meeting of his Security Council that Moscow will not introduce a visa regime for Ukrainians wanting to enter Russia. He said imposing visa regulations against Ukrainians would cause "millions of innocent Ukrainians" to suffer.
11:12 21.3.2014
Here's a very dubious Russian report alleging that Yatsenyuk is in talks with Poland to hand three Western Ukrainian regions to Warsaw by year's end. Without even a referendum.
11:14 21.3.2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told VOA that he hopes Russia's actions in Ukraine don't adversely affect important international issues like Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan.
Kerry Hopes For No Russian Tension Spillover
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11:25 21.3.2014
Russian Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko in televised remarks after Russia's upper house of parliament ratified the treaty making Ukraine's Crimea part of Russia:

"We are not just witnesses to, but participants in, the historic events of recent days. And we, with a sense of dignity, responsibility, and patriotism, have also fulfilled our historic mission."
11:27 21.3.2014
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11:34 21.3.2014
Bit of perspective from our own Robert Coalson...
11:48 21.3.2014
Via Russian and international agencies, Medvedev has upped Kyiv's ante:

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Ukraine owes Russia a total of $16 billion. Medvedev, in a meeting on Friday, told President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine should pay back $11 billion to Russia because an agreement under which Russia provided cheap gas in exchange for the lease of the Sevastopol naval base in Crimea was "subject to denunciation."

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