WASHINGTON - The top U.S. intelligence official told a Senate panel on Feb. 26 that Russian-backed separatists would probably continue their advance through Ukraine this spring and that he favors providing lethal arms to help defend the area.
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People pay their respects during the funeral of Georgian fighter of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion of Donbass killed during ATO (Anti-Terrorists Operation) in the west of the country Tomaz Sukhiashvili, in Kyiv on Jan. 21, 2015.
