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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
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Russia is shocked, SHOCKED to hear that Ukraine is considering pulling out of the NPT.
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From our profile of the controversial slain Right Sector leader Oleksandr Muzychko by Daisy Sindelar:
At a time when many Euromaidan organizers were desperate to keep the protest movement peaceful, Muzychko and other Right Sector members, operating under leader Dmytro Yarosh, were committed to a militarized fight against the regime of now-ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.

"The person who holds the Kalashnikov is the person who calls the shots," Muzychko was quoted as saying.

It includes video of Muzychko assaulting a prosecutor and threatening a lawmaker with a rifle.

We already posted this video from a week ago of Myzychko being interviewed by our Ukrainian Service:
Ukrainian Nationalist Speaking To RFE/RL Shortly Before Death
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Via correspondent @CoalsonR, an obozrevatel.com report says calling for the return of Crimea to Ukraine is punishable by five years in jail under Russian anti-extremism legislation.
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Meanwhile, in The Hague....
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Tihipko and Yanukovych in better days.
Tihipko and Yanukovych in better days.

Ukrainska Pravda and Interfax-Ukraine report that Party of Regions stalwart Serhiy Tihipko will run in the May 25 presidential elections as an independent.

Tihipko, a banking expert who made this year's "Forbes" magazine billionaires' list with an estimated net worth of $1.02 billion, has submitted registration documents to the Central Election Commission.

He joins a growing candidate list that includes: former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, UDAR head Vitali Klitschko, Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh, and former Kharkiv governor Mykhaylo Dobkin.

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