Military support: the House of representatives approved the allocation of $ 150 million to support Ukraine
The house of representatives of the Congress of the United States of America supported the allocation of $ 150 million in military support to Ukraine.
About it reports DW.
“Provide Kiev funds in the appropriations bill for military purposes in the new financial year to 1 October 2017, which was adopted by majority of votes of deputies of the house of representatives Wednesday, March 8. The document was supported by 371 deputies of the lower house of Congress, 48 parliamentarians voted “against”, – stated in the message.
The funds will be available for the Pentagon to provide Ukraine with military support, including, in particular, the provision of lethal weapons of a defensive nature, and equipment, logistics support, intelligence support of the Ukrainian army and national security forces, the training of personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces and the like.
In total defense the Pentagon budget in the 2017 financial year will amount to $ 578 billion.
Now the document must still be approved by the Senate of the U.S. Congress, but the administration of President Donald trump announced plans to increase the defence Ministry’s budget for the current year to $ 30 billion.
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We will remind that the Minister of foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin said during his working visit to the United States is going to discuss granting Ukraine defensive lethal weapons.
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The Minister noted that he had a conversation about this with the head of the state Department Rex Tillerson.
“And I will continue to discuss it during the next scheduled negotiations. This is not the last meeting here in Washington,” – said Klimkin.