U.S. Ambassador: Ukrainian power structures will assist 33 million dollars
U.S. will assist the Ukrainian power structures in 2014 in the amount of 33 million dollars, said the US Ambassador in Ukraine Jeffrey Payette.
" Our aid to all law enforcement agencies in Ukraine increased significantly currently to as much as $ 33 million, this figure we'll have during the current year ", - Payette said at a press conference on the last working day of the week.
according to him, This assistance will be provided in the framework of different programs, one of the priority is to help the state border service of Ukraine for the increased security of the Ukrainian state border.
in recent months, the militiamen of the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk national republics managed to take under its supervision a number of sections of the border with the Russian Federation.
As passed by the end of June Kiev " the Fifth channel ", the US has provided one and a half thousand of individual kits first aid to the armed forces of Ukraine. First aid kits were provided at the request of the Ukrainian defense Ministry. This delivery is part of a package using the Ukrainian army non-lethal means, which also includes American body armor, night vision devices, radios and other equipment in the amount of $ 23 million.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, How is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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