The US will send $53 million in aid, including $46 million in military assistance, to Ukraine's military but declined a request from President Petro Poroshenko to send lethal aid to help in the battle against Russian-backed separatists.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
France 24: US to send $53 million in non-lethal aid to Ukraine (VIDEO)
Ukrainian soldiers guard at a checkpoint controlled by Ukrainian forces on Sept. 10, 2014, near the small eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyanoserbsk, in the Lugansk Oblast.
