WASHINGTON (AP) — Both Democratic and Republican U.S. senators asked Tuesday why the Obama administration hasn't decided whether to send defensive weapons to Ukraine and what's the holdup in getting promised assistance to the country in the face of Russian violations of the cease-fire.
Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that administration officials are still discussing lethal assistance and are watching whether the so-called Minsk agreements, which led to last month's cease-fire, are implemented.
At the same time, she said that in the past few days, there have been new transfers of Russian tanks, armored vehicles, heavy artillery and rocket equipment over the border to the separatists in eastern Ukraine.