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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
16:54 15.3.2014
U.S. Senate delegation's press conference is underway

WATCH IT LIVE:


16:35 15.3.2014
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says 40 Ukrainian citizens were detained at Moscow's Sherametevo Airport.

"No explanation was given to the Ukrainian citizens, nor to representatives of the Ukrainian Embassy when they arrived on the scene," the Foreign Ministry said, according to Ukrainska Pravda.
16:29 15.3.2014
Funny conversation recounted by Mark MacKinnon of "The Globe and Mail":
16:17 15.3.2014
This just in from Reuters: U.S. Destroyer to conduct more drills on Black Sea.

ABOARD THE USS TRUXTUN, Bulgaria, March 15 (Reuters) - The USS Truxtun, a U.S. guided-missile destroyer, will carry out more exercises with allied ships in the Black Sea, its commander said on Saturday, in a further sign of the international response to Russia's actions in Ukraine.

Commander Andrew Biehn was briefing reporters aboard the 300-crew destroyer as it lay docked in a Bulgarian port.

The USS Truxtun last week took part in drills with Romanian and Bulgarian ships a few hundred miles from Russian forces that entered Ukraine's Russian-majority of Crimea after mass protests toppled the country's pro-Moscow president.


16:13 15.3.2014
Live Feed of U.S. Senate delegation's presser in Kyiv:


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15:58 15.3.2014
Paul Waldie of "The Globe and Mail" reports on Ukraine's claims that it "repelled" attempted Russian incursion outside of Crimea.

The Ukrainian military says it has “repelled” an effort by the Russian military to land in southern Ukraine, just outside Crimea

"Units of Ukraine's armed forces today ... repelled an attempt by servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation to enter the territory of Kherson region on Arbatskaya Strelka," a statement from the Defense Ministry said. "This was repelled immediately."

It said the Ukrainian military used aircraft, ground forces and its aeromobile battalion in the operation. It was unclear whether any shots were fired.
15:51 15.3.2014
Bold words. Would like to know who said them:

15:42 15.3.2014

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