Accessibility links

Breaking News
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
15:35 6.3.2014
In Russian:
16:12 6.3.2014
A hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs in Washington has reconvened after a recess. Eric Rubin, Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State, tells the committee that Washington is encouraged by the current Ukrainian government's willingness to deal with the IMF on correcting deficiencies in its economy.
16:15 6.3.2014
Paige Alexander, assistant administrator Bureau for Europe and Eurasia for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), tells the same hearing that in the leadup to Ukrainian elections it is important to make sure objective information is available to the Ukrainian public and that Washington supports that effort. She was answering a question from U.S. Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that's holding the "U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Ukraine" hearing, about whether Washington plans to increase surrogate radio broadcasting to Ukraine, especially to eastern Ukraine.
16:21 6.3.2014
A senior State Department official says on background that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed Ukraine today when they met on the sidelines of the International Conference on Libya in Rome for 40 minutes. Kerry is said to have stressed the importance of direct Russian-Ukrainian dialogue and talked with Lavrov about formats. Kerry, the source says, also highlighted the need for access by international monitors to Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
16:32 6.3.2014
16:52 6.3.2014
Reuters quotes Polish media "Gazeta Wyborcza" and "Rzeczpospolita" saying 12 F-16 U.S. fighters are being sent to Poland for a training exercise.
16:57 6.3.2014
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy announces that a Russian failure to deescalate the situation in Crimea "will have serious consequences on our bilateral relations."
16:58 6.3.2014
Van Rompuy threatens Russia with "severe and far-reaching consequences...which will include a broad range of areas."
17:18 6.3.2014
New piece on "Crimean Lawmakers Coordinate With Russians To Push Annexation."
07:08 7.3.2014
After reports that an independent television station was shut down almost as soon as pro-Russian forces took over Crimea, comes news of further media restrictions:

In Crimea, at least one Ukrainian TV channel has been taken off the air. A presenter at 1+1, Lidia Taran, said that reporters at the TV channel had been attacked while working in Crimea.

"Our journalists from the very start of the standoff in Crimea were in danger. Every day our local correspondents are attacked," Taran said. "There were several attempts for our Kyiv crews to drive out and work in Crimea, they were a failure, today one of our crews was taken in."

Other reports said another Ukrainian TV channel, Channel 5, had also been blocked from broadcasting on the Black Sea peninsula.

And harassment of journalists on the street continues:

Load more

XS
SM
MD
LG