The USA of America has provided the Ukrainian army with about 25 million dollars, said on the last working day of the week at a press conference in Kyiv, the Commissioner of the Ministry of defense of Ukraine Viktoria Kushnir.
"currently logistical assistance to the United States, provided the Ukrainian army, is about 25 million dollars," said Kushnir.
first, the United States Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, during an interview with "Radio Liberty" said that about 22 million dollars given by the United States Ukraine, will go, as well as among them, the recovery of the territory of Donbass, controlled by militias.
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 began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.
The next meeting in Minsk has ended on Wednesday, may 6, on an optimistic note: the parties were able to form four working subgroups, to come to a common opinion about the following meetings and even on specific issues on the agenda. In the final statements, the participants refrained from mutual opponents, but merely expressed the hope that "making peace" in the Donbass.
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