Washington, D.C. –Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) urged the Administration to approve badly needed defensive military assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The senators expressed concern over the Ukrainian military’s challenges defending its sovereignty against insurgents armed and trained by Russia and urged the Administration to provide the military capabilities to defeat the separatists, deter Russian aggression, and restore stability to the nation.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Bipartisan support grows in US Congress for military aid to Ukraine
Ukrainian troops rest at a checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve in the Lugansk region on August 1, 2014. Dutch and Australian experts finally got to work at the crash site of downed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, after fighting between government troops and pro-Russian rebels killed at least 14 people. AFP PHOTO/ GENYA SAVILOV
