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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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Reuters reports that French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says sanctions against Russia over Ukraine could be imposed as early as this week if Moscow fails to respond to a proposition designed to calm the crisis over the occupation of Crimea.

He also dismissed the looming referendum called by the Crimean parliament on joining Russia, saying, "The only legitimate vote is that of May 25 for the president of the republic in Ukraine. The vote of March 16 has no legitimacy."
08:10 11.3.2014
We're less than an hour away from a reported appearance from southern Russia by ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
08:57 11.3.2014
09:01 11.3.2014

Simferopol airport is no longer international, but "moskovsky" -- only receiving flights from the Russian Federation.



09:04 11.3.2014
Roughly 100 journalists have gathered in Rostov-on-Don for Yanukovych presser #2, due to begin any minute. Ukrainskaya pravda tweeting rumors in the hall that Yanukovych will announce that he won't be answering any questions.


09:06 11.3.2014
Indeed. No questions. Only an announcement.
09:13 11.3.2014
Yanukovych emerges at last, sighing heavily into the microphones. In order to quell rumors, he announces he's alive, but not feeling well, because the government of Ukraine has fallen into the hands of ultranationalists and neo-fascists.
09:15 11.3.2014
Yanukovych says seasoned officers and soldiers of the Ukrainian military know better than to carry out orders from current government.

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