{"id":375710,"date":"2018-09-01T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-ready-to-boost-lethal-arms-supplies-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T12:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:52:48","slug":"presstv-us-ready-to-boost-lethal-arms-supplies-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-ready-to-boost-lethal-arms-supplies-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US \u2018ready\u2019 to boost lethal arms supplies to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A US diplomat to Ukraine says Washington will provide Kiev with more lethal weapons to help build up its naval and air forces in the face of what they call Russian threat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker told<em> The Guardian <\/em>that the administration of President Donald Trump was \u201cabsolutely\u201d prepared to go further in supplying such weaponry to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The West accuses Moscow of providing support for the pro-Russia forces fighting in eastern Ukraine, a charge Russia resolutely denies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [Ukrainians] are losing soldiers every week defending their own country,\u201d said Volker. \u201cAnd so in that context it\u2019s natural for Ukraine to build up its military, engage in self-defense, and it\u2019s natural to seek assistance and is natural that other countries should help them. And of course they need lethal assistance because they\u2019re being shot at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said Kiev and Washington are engaged in negotiations \u201cabout naval capability&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/01\/572847\/Russia-Ukraine-conflict-lethal-arms-US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US diplomat to Ukraine says Washington will provide Kiev with more lethal weapons to help build up its naval and air forces in the face of what they call Russian threat. US Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker told The Guardian that the administration of President Donald Trump was \u201cabsolutely\u201d prepared to go further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}