WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner and a group of top Democrats and Republicans stepped up the pressure on President Barack Obama to provide lethal, defensive weapons to Ukraine in its fight against Russian-backed separatists.
In a letter to the president on Thursday, the 11 lawmakers wrote that Russia’s actions are more than an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty, calling it a “grotesque violation of international law, a challenge to the West and an assault on the international order established at such great cost in the wake of World War II.”
The group said the so-called Minsk agreements, which led to last month’s …read more
Source: PBS
