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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.
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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
17:31 22.3.2014
And "freedom of the press" comes to Crimea:

17:31 22.3.2014

17:32 22.3.2014
Photo of Ukrainian submarine seized by Russia:

17:42 22.3.2014
From Intefax, Crimean Prime Minister calls on Ukrainians to resist EU:

SIMFEROPOL. March 22 (Interfax) - Crimea's Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov, has urged residents of Ukraine to resist the Ukrainian leadership's policy of integration with the European Union which, he
said,is ruinous for the country, the Kryminform news agency reported on
Saturday.

In an address to the people of Ukraine, Aksyonov said that "a movement in support of our traditional and solely correct political and economic union with the Russian state is broadening" in many regions of
Ukraine. "I am urging you for the sake of our common benefit to supportit. Rise and struggle for a decent future, for our common future,"Aksyonov said.

17:47 22.3.2014
Turns out one of the civilians being evacuated by masked men we posted earlier...


...is David Herszenhorn of "The New York Times"...

17:48 22.3.2014

17:51 22.3.2014
CNN has a pretty comprehensive wrap on Russian moves around Crimea today.

17:53 22.3.2014
From David Herszenhorn of "The New York Times":

17:53 22.3.2014

17:53 22.3.2014

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