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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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Ukraine renounces its presidency of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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RFE/RL's Russian Service interviewed Roman Romanenko, the journalist who jokingly asked Putin to dispatch troops to protect residents of Russia's Vologda region from corrupt officials. The regional governor has since demanded an investigation on extremism charges.
14:23 19.3.2014
​Workers replacing letters on Crimean parliament building.

14:42 19.3.2014
This video has been making the rounds. "Self-defense" forces manhandle an elderly woman for saying Crimea is Ukrainian.

14:53 19.3.2014
Following National Geographic, Mail.ru and Yandex have changed their maps to include Crimea in the Russian Federation. Google not following suit so far.
14:59 19.3.2014
These are emotional times for Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, former ambassador to NATO

15:08 19.3.2014
Ukraine is working on ways to evacuate its citizens from Crimea. First Deputy Defense Minister Leonid Polyakov says troops will remain.

15:31 19.3.2014
Ukraine is working on ways to evacuate its citizens from Crimea. First Deputy Defense Minister Leonid Polyakov says troops will remain.

15:34 19.3.2014
Here's a new update from RFE/RL's newsdesk:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading to Russia and Ukraine amid the escalating crisis over Crimea.

Ban's office said the secretary-general will meet tomorrow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, before traveling to Kyiv the following day for talks with top Ukrainian officials to push for a peaceful resolution.

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that Russia could face permanent expulsion from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations if it took further action against Ukraine after annexing Crimea. (AFP, Reuters)

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