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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
12:53 27.3.2014
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12:59 27.3.2014
It does appear -- given that there will have been $60 billion in capital outflow in the first quarter -- that Economic Development Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev's estimate of $100 billion in total capital outflow from Russia for all of 2014 is low-balling it.
13:00 27.3.2014
13:08 27.3.2014
13:24 27.3.2014
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced that she plans to run again for president.
13:33 27.3.2014
"In 2014, the country lacks 289 billion hryvnya ($26 billion), which is almost the amount of the entire state budget for the current year." -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
13:36 27.3.2014
RFE/RL's Armenian Service quotes Kyiv's ambassador to Yerevan vowing that Ukraine will preserve diplomatic ties with Armenia no matter how Yerevan votes on Russia's annexation of Crimea at a session later today of the UN General Assembly. A spokesman for the Ukrainian Embassy in Yerevan, Ihor Roman, told journalists that Ukrainian Ambassador Ivan Kukhta, who was recalled by Kyiv, will return to Yerevan next week to continue his duties.

Armenian Foreign Ministry officials told RFE/RL yesterday that Yerevan would abstain from the vote on the resolution, which affirms Ukraine's territorial integrity and calls illegal the referendum held in Crimea on joining Russia. Kyiv recalled its ambassador last week after reports said Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had agreed by phone that the disputed referendum on Crimea joining Russia was an "example of peoples' right for self-determination."
13:38 27.3.2014
Might not prove so simple.
14:28 27.3.2014
Ukraine's acting foreign minister tweets ahead of today's UN debate on possible condemnation of Russia's Crimean annexation:

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