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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
09:17 11.3.2014
Yanukovych: I repeat, I did not abandon my post. I left because armed radicals had stormed the presidential administration. I will come back to Kyiv.
09:18 11.3.2014
Yanukovych: Any U.S. aid to current government violates U.S. law.
09:21 11.3.2014
Yanukovych: My administration was on the brink of launching much-needed economic reforms that will go unfulfilled due to anticonstitutional, illegal seizure of power by illegitimate forces. You'll be sorry! And with that, the presser is over after just 10 minutes.
09:23 11.3.2014
That's it?
09:40 11.3.2014
09:45 11.3.2014
09:46 11.3.2014
09:50 11.3.2014
Yanukovych in his presser questioned legality of U.S. pledge of $1 billion in assistance to Ukrainian government, citing U.S. Code 8422 on authorization of foreign assistance, which states that assistance is restricted "to the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree."
10:04 11.3.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports that the head of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, due to hold press briefing in the coming hours announcing direct evidence of Russian intelligence "organizing sabotage and bribery" in Ukraine, "especially in the east."
10:14 11.3.2014
The Crimean Parliament has passed a declaration on the independence of the Crimean Republic and the city of Sevastopol . 78 of 81 deputies present vote in favor.

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