The United States says it will provide Ukraine with "enhanced" defensive weapons to build its capabilities.
CNN: US will provide anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, State Dept. official says
The US is going to provide anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, a senior State Department official told CNN.
The State Department officially announced Friday evening that the US was going to provide Ukraine with "enhanced defensive capabilities as part of our effort to help Ukraine build its long-term defense capacity, to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to deter further aggression," but the statement from spokeswoman Heather Nauert said it was not going to give any further details.
The State Department said the "US assistance is entirely defensive in nature, and as we have always said, Ukraine is a sovereign country and has a right to defend itself."
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https://www.rt.com/news/414054-us-lethal-arms-ukraine/
RT has been branded a foreign agent news service - and rightfully so as they are not once saying anything unbiased - but Russians eat up that propaganda and don't seem to complain about the lack of another perspective here.
@WNU...Do Russians believe all that nonsense in the comments section?
Anon,
If you look at the above links, not one is from Russia reporting this agreement to transfer arms to Ukraine. From my own experience, people in eastern Europe are far more skeptical of their media than people in the West.
Wnu I wouldn't expect less of you and I hope you're right. Because the Ukraine issue is one the west will not back down on. We see Russians as the aggressors in this case. We could ignore Russian aggression in Georgia and Crimea but we cannot ignore Ukraine. If Russia doesn't back down finally this could get much worse
Anon,
The problem in Ukraine .... and it has been the case long before the current crisis .... is the large Russian-Ukrainian population in the country and how they do not see eye-to-eye with the Ukrainian majority (and vice-versa). Yes .... the focus is on Russia, but the real focus should be on how internal divisions between these two ethnic groups has brought about this crisis, and how to really resolve it is for both of these groups to meet and negotiate a meaningful peace. Unfortunately .... there is no appetite among Poroshenko and his supporters to give the Russian-Ukrainian majority in the eastern part of the country what they really want .... autonomy, control of their language and culture, and a say on how their resource wealth (primarily coal and soon to be shale development) can be developed. Hence the conflict, and both sides being supported by outside forces. Poroshenko is up for election in a few years .... he has been polling in the low teens since he broke his promise to negotiate a peace agreement to end this war, and I predict he will be resoundingly defeated. My concern is on who will replace him, and will that person embrace negotiations and do the necessary compromises to end the war.
Thanks for your perspective on this. My perspective is: why should the west always give up just because Russia wants more territory? Do you realise how large Russia is? It's a joke. Russia has only 100mn people but controls territories of entire Europe and US (1bn people) combined. And wtf does Russia think that they can support rebels in an independent country? Those rebels are heavily supported by Russia. How would Russians feel if the US were to give tanks and artillery to a break away region in east Moscow?? Imagine. ..we'd ne immediately at war. So I say enough of this Putin's never ending thirst for expansion and meddling. This is Europe. Do not go any further or we will strike back.
The red line is Ukraine.
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