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POLITICO: Special envoy – US may send arms to Ukraine

Published July 25, 2017 at 1:01 pm

US Army personnel offload military equipment at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base near Constanta in Romania on Feb. 14, 2017.Soldiers and equipment from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, arrived at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base as part of the ongoing Atlantic Resolve mission. The combined arms unit of the "Fighting Eagles" brings a full complement of 500 US troops, a US Army infantry battalion's M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradley fighting vehicles, and M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzers to Romania.

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The new U.S. special envoy for the crisis in Ukraine said Washington is actively considering whether to send weapons to Ukrainian government forces fighting Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker said arming Ukrainian government forces could alter Moscow’s approach to the conflict.