The EU should put pressure on the Russian Federation, and to insist that the U.S. has supplied weapons to Ukraine, says the head of the international Department of the State Duma, Alexei Pushkov.

"In order to preserve the fragile truce in Ukraine, the EU should not in Moscow to push and insist that the United States has not deployed weapons," Pushkov wrote in his own Twitter.


The Ukrainian authorities began in April 2014 in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people.

U.S. lawmakers have repeatedly demanded the President to allow delivery Ukraine deadly weapons. The white house in response to this informs that the issue is under consideration and a decision until not accepted. At the same time Washington has already Kiev sufficiently serious so-called non-lethal military aid.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, took place against a background of a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, instigated by the Ukrainian law enforcers who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. According to the results of the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a package of measures involving, for example, a cease-fire in the Donbass with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of a security zone.

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