The United States must help Ukraine military equipment, as well as among them weapons, said the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Saying the speech to the Congress of the United States.
" They (the Ukrainian military - editor) we need more military equipment. Lethal and non-lethal. They urgently need it. We cannot win the war blankets, " said Poroshenko.
first Secretary of state of the United States, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, who on Thursday came to the United States, discussed the issues of cooperation of two countries in the sphere of defense and material assistance to Ukraine.
The Committee on international Affairs of the Senate of the United States on Thursday will also see the draft law on new sanctions against Russia and military assistance to Ukraine. The authors propose to give the President of the United States the right to approve delivery Kyiv " subjects defence purposes ". In their number, for example, included anti-tank weapons, fire control systems, radar, unmanned aerial devices, command system, communications.
Western countries are already helping Ukraine, providing them with military products. So, in the last month of summer Ukrainian border guards received from the government of Canada 32 tons of military equipment price of five million dollars. In early July, the head of the MIA of Ukraine Arsen Avakov distributed flak jackets and helmets standard NATO fighters of machardie. The United States has provided for the needs of the military power of Ukraine 300 thousand sets of dry rations, supplied to Ukraine barbed wire and field-glasses, and later decided to allocate $ 7 million for tents, heaters and other equipment.
first, the government of Ukraine approved the draft law to abolish the neutral status of the Country and the capture rate for membership in NATO, including the United States. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the purpose of Kiev, " the special status between Ukraine and NATO ".
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