None of the partner countries does not provide Ukraine lethal weapon, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk during a speech on Thursday at the military Institute of telecommunications and Informatization.
" Unfortunately, our partners we have no one provides money specifically on the financing of the army. Yes, we have taken the assistance is not completely from our Western partners, and among them defensive tools, but lethal weapons and offensive weapons we have received, for this reason, manage themselves, " - said Yatsenyuk.
first Ambassador of Ukraine to NATO Ihor Dolgov said that Kyiv has requested additional military assistance to the partners, and among them the countries-members of NATO, in connection with the deterioration of the situation in the East of Ukraine. However, he said that NATO as a military-political organization will not provide lethal weapons Ukraine.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April 2014 in the Donbass military operation against disgruntled happened last February by the coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict began more than 5 thousand civilians. In September, facilitated by the OSCE and Russia, the Ukrainian Authorities and the self-proclaimed militia DND and LNR agreed in Minsk truce. Despite the fact that the militia and the Ukrainian Military periodically accused one another in the violation, in General, the reviews and the parties to the conflict, and observers from the OSCE, the ceasefire was respected. However, on January 9, the intensity of attacks in the region has increased, as has the number of victims of the conflict.
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