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Washington is considering a possibility of supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine, United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis said after talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on August 24.

Mattis said that upon return to the U.S., he, acting on the basis of what he has seen and learnt, would inform the U.S. leadership of specific things and would recommend that they be put into practice.