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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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Scenes from a Saturday -- Moscow, Donetsk, Kyiv, Simferopol...

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More reports that Russian paratroopers have landed in Herson Oblast. Unconfirmed as of yet...
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Bloomberg quotes Ukraine's Ambassador to Russia as saying Crimean secession could spark Tatar uprising and cuts in power and water supplies:

Russia’s planned annexation of Crimea threatens to trigger an armed uprising by the Tatar minority and cuts in power and water supplies from mainland Ukraine, the Kiev government’s envoy in Moscow said.

Tatars, who comprise about 12 percent of Crimea’s population of more than 2 million, will never agree to join Russia, Vladimir Elchenko said in an interview after talks with former Tatar leader Mustafa Jemilev, who flew to the Russian capital this week to meet with President Vladimir Putin.

Ukraine will never recognize a Russian Crimea either, Elchenko said at the Ukrainian Embassy late yesterday. “Okay, Russia will take Crimea, but we’ll never recognize Crimea, and the world won’t,” Elchenko said. “It will be a frozen or not so frozen conflict that will last for years.”
13:56 15.3.2014

Live feed of demonstrators in Donetsk storming SBU building:
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It's still pretty tense in Dontesk.


Watch it develop on Hromadske TV's Live Feed:

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Some scenes from Kyiv from The Globe and Mail's European Bureau Chief Paul Waldie:




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