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Aircraft and defence: the US Congress has voted to send "Lethal weapons" in Ukraine

Washington, USA - The vote carried by a large majority

Yesterday, March 23, 2015 the US Congress voted by a large majority to send to the government of Kiev military aid in the form of "Lethal weapons". In the past month of December already, the American president Barack Obama signed an authorization to send in Kiev this kind of equipment, but on the advice by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, delayed the shipments of war materials focusing on a...

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Rome, Italy, 03/24/2015 17:59
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