US to deliver Humvees and drones to Ukraine

It is informed by AFP with a reference to an official representative of the US.

Recently it was reported that as before, the US is considering the issue of deliveries of lethal weapons and other armament systems to Ukraine, Novoe vremya writes.

Earlier a German Ambassador to the United States Peter Wittig said that U.S. President Barack Obama decided not to supply lethal weapons to the Ukrainian army after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on February 9. In his turn, Kyiv has already warned Europe about the imminent war with Russia.

U.S. Congressmen are exerting serious pressure on Barack Obama’s administration and propose not to delay deliveries of defensive equipment to Ukraine. They give is as a reason that after Minsk accords, which resulted in a fragile ceasefire in the region, pro-Russian separatists on the occupied territories, expanding them.

Many European governments, on the contrary believe that arms deliveries are to fuel escalation of the conflict. It was said at the Ukrainian parliament that the Kremlin threatened by a full-on assault of Russian troops against Kyiv in case of providing weapons to Ukraine by the US.