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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
13:00 15.3.2014
Russian daily "Vedomosti" reporting that Gazprom chairman Viktor Zubkov sold his shares in the state-run energy giant weeks before the Crimea conflict broke out.

Via Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge:

"We are sure it is just coincidence - and awkward combination of luck and suspicious timing - but Vedomosti reports that Viktor Zubkov, the Chairman of Russia's massive energy monopoly Gazprom, dumped his entire stake in the company just a few weeks before Vladimir Putin crossed the red line. Gazprom shares have dropped 25% in the last 3 weeks so his timing was impeccible."
12:50 15.3.2014
Buzz Feed's Mike Giglio tweets from pro-Russia demo in Donetsk:

12:47 15.3.2014
Some breaking news from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:

The Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv has voted to dissolve the Crimean Supreme Council, the Ukrainian region's parliament. An overwhelming majority of 278 lawmakers voted in favor of the measure. (With reporting by Interfax)
12:40 15.3.2014
12:40 15.3.2014
From pro-Russia rally in Donetsk:

12:38 15.3.2014
12:36 15.3.2014
Interesting...

12:35 15.3.2014
From RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. Only one organization authorized to conduct exit polls in Crimean referendum. All others "illegal."

12:31 15.3.2014
12:27 15.3.2014
This just in from our newsdesk:

Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov has accused Moscow of being behind the deadly violence that has occurred in eastern Ukraine the last two nights.

Turchynov said in parliament on March 15 that "Kremlin agents" in Donetsk and Kharkhiv "are organizing and funding" mass pro-Russia protests in which three people have died and dozens of others have been injured in clashes. (Reuters, AP, Interfax)

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