President Donald J. Trump and President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine at the United Nations General Assembly. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
We Are The Mighty/RFE: U.S. could send more advanced weapons to Ukraine
The United States is considering sending more lethal weaponry to Kyiv to build up its naval and air defenses, Washington's special envoy for Ukraine said, as concerns mount that Russia may be stepping up operations in coastal waters.
In an interview with RFE/RL on Sept. 13, 2018, Kurt Volker blamed Russia for fueling the conflict. He also said that Washington and Moscow still have serious differences over a possible United Nations peacekeeping force that could be deployed to help bring an end to the fighting in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Volker said he thought that Russian President Vladimir Putin was unwilling to negotiate much of anything related to the conflict at least until after Ukraine's presidential elections in March 2019, or with "[Ukrainian President Petro] Poroshenko still in power."
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WNU Editor: Sending U.S. arms to Ukraine will not bring Putin to the negotiating table. On the contrary .... it makes the situation far worse.
