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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.
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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
14:52 8.3.2014
Reports say more than 5,000 pro-Russia demonstrators take to the streets in Donetsk. Demand release of pro-Moscow activist and businessman Pavel Gubarev.

14:53 8.3.2014

14:55 8.3.2014
Ukrainian Border Service says Russia is continuing to move forces into Ukraine.

14:55 8.3.2014

14:57 8.3.2014
Agencies: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says the European Union has decided to sign "immediately" the political chapters of an Association Agreement with Ukraine.

15:21 8.3.2014
Russian "pseudojournalists" detained in Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, according to our Ukrainian Service:

15:57 8.3.2014
From our latest story on the EU fast-tracking political chapters of an Association Agreement with Ukraine:

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says the European Union has decided to sign "immediately" the political chapters of an Association Agreement with Ukraine, amid heightened tensions over Russia's involvement in Crimea.

Barroso, speaking at a summit of European regions and cities in Athens on March 8, said the EU has a "debt, a duty of solidarity" with Ukraine.

In a reference to an official crackdown against the so-called Euromaidan protests and related unrest sparked by ousted President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to turn his back on an Association Agreement in November, Barroso said that "more than 100 people [have] already died for these values in Europe, in Ukraine [wanting] to follow the values of Europe."

"I think we have debt, a duty of solidarity with that country, and we will work to have them as close as possible to us," Barroso said. "We have decided also, immediately to sign -- because it was requested by the prime minister of Ukraine [Arseniy Yatsenyuk] -- sign the political chapters of the Association Agreement. Which means that Ukraine will seal its association with the European Union. That's I think we can do and should do now, but of course we'll do it in a way, we are trying to do it in a way that is peaceful."

16:17 8.3.2014

16:20 8.3.2014

16:30 8.3.2014
Wire services are reporting that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and Ukraine's Ambassador to Moscow, Volodymyr Yelchenko, have met in Moscow.

From Deutsche Welle:

Russia's deputy foreign minister and Ukrainian ambassador to Moscow met in the Russian capital on Saturday to discuss rising tensions in the Crimea region, the Russian foreign ministry said.
"On the 8th of March, a meeting took place between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and Ukraine's Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko during which, in an open atmosphere, questions of Russia-Ukrainian relations were discussed," a statement from the foreign ministry said.

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