Ukrainian foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin thanked the chamber authorized the U.S. for offering to provide his country with military assistance.
The chamber of commissioners before the us Congress approved a resolution urging President Barack Obama to begin arms shipments to Ukraine.
"I thank the chamber authorized the U.S. for a resolution calling to provide military assistance," he wrote on Twitter.
first, the U.S. administration announced that it is considering assistance to Kiev lethal " weapons, but then refrained from doing so. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin declared that, according to Russian sources, weapons Kyiv is supplied, the American side denies this. Total U.S. military aid to Kyiv, including armored vehicles and anti-artillery radar, amounted to about $ 200 million.
dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, came amid a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have taken a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.
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