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Chuck Hagel: U.S. will send ‘non-lethal’ military aid to Ukraine

The United States will send helmets, medical supplies and other non-lethal military aid to Ukraine amid fears of another Russian incursion there, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday. Hagel said he had informed Kiev that President Barack Obama “has approved additional non-lethal military assistance for health and welfare items and other supplies.” The aid includes medical supplies, helmets, sleeping mats and water purification units for Ukrainian troops, as well as shelters, small power generators and hand fuel pumps for Ukraine’s border security force. But it does not appear to contain any combat equipment, such as bulletproof vests or night-vision goggles. Washington had sent some 300,000 food rations to Kiev in late March. “The United States continues to stand with Ukraine,” Hagel told reporters during a joint press conference with Poland’s visiting Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak. The aid makes up part of a long wish list of items sought by Kiev over the past several weeks, as its ill-equipped forces face a pro-Russian uprising in the east, and the specter of Moscow annexing another huge chunk of its territory after the seizure of Crimea last month. “The United States will continue to review additional support that we can provide to Ukraine,” Hagel said. Several U.S.

 

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