Ukraine will receive an additional five hundred million dollars from the government of America to the training of the military, said on his page in the head Department for international relations of the Verkhovna Rada Anna hopko referring to the letter from the Vice-President of the USA Joseph Biden.

According to hopko, provided by USA funds will go to training programs on the ground in Yavorov of Lviv region for the National guard and military power of Ukraine.

first U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt that North America has already provided assistance to Ukraine in the field of security in the amount of 245 million dollars.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people.

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