One of the most important reasons why the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and President of the French Republic Francois Hollande to visit Kiev, are frequent conversations in Western capitals about arms supplies to Ukraine, this visit can be a gesture of despair, when the first serious attempt of Europe to achieve a cease-fire will not succeed, writes the British print edition.
"Such talk is alarming, as the signals coming from the capital of the United States. Ashton Carter, the applicant for the position of head of the Pentagon, told the senators that he was "inclined" to grant the Kyiv government heavy weapons, which it asks.
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