Russia’s relations with the West are at a low point, a senior member of the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee said, due to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula one year ago and Moscow’s continuing support for separatist rebels in Ukraine, especially in that country’s eastern Donbas region.
Senator James Risch is one of a number of American lawmakers who have urged the U.S. government to begin supplying lethal weapons to the Ukrainian government as a deterrent against further Russian support for the rebels in eastern Ukraine.
In an interview with Voice of America’s Georgian Service, Risch said if the U.S. were …read more
Source: Voice of America
