KABUL: (Middle East Press) The United States House of Representatives has decided to persuade President Barack Obama to provide Ukraine with deadly arms.
The decision was approved in a bipartisan 348-48 vote on Monday, calling on the president to send lethal arms to support the Kiev government against Russian “violence.”
The measure urges Obama to provide the country with “lethal defensive weapon systems” that would improve Kiev’s ability to “defend their sovereign territory from the unprovoked and continuing aggression of the Russian Federation.”
The US and its Western allies have accused Moscow of sending military in eastern Ukraine to support the pro-Russian forces.
However, Moscow disagrees any involvement. It also has warned the US against sending arms to Ukraine, saying the move would cause “massive damage” to ties between the two countries.
Ukraine’s mainly Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in the east have witnessed fatal clashes between the pro-Russia forces and the Ukrainian army since Kiev thrown military operations to silence pro-Moscow protests in mid-April 2014.
