Ukrainian President Asks Us For Military Aid

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 8:06am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of Ukraine is asking the U.S. to give his soldiers lethal military equipment in its battle against Russian-backed separatists, saying that one cannot win the war or keep the peace with blankets and night vision goggles. The crisis followed Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, which Poroshenko says was one of the most "cynical acts of treachery in modern history."

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