Donald Trump agreed on sale of lethal defensive weapon to Ukraine
Donald Trump agreed on sale of lethal defensive weapon to Ukraine
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Donald Trump management has passed the commercial trading of the lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine which is fighting a Russian-backed heretical movement in two eastern states.The management has passed the sale of Model M107A1 Sniper Systems and connected equipment to the country at a value of USD 41.5 million, reported by the source.However, it has not yet gone to approve heavy arms requested by Ukraine's government, including Javelin anti-tank missiles.

Such sales were authorized by Congress three years back in the Ukraine Freedom Support Act but the Obama administration has never taken any step to follow through.The decision whether to allow lethal arms sales to Ukraine had been sitting on Trump's bench for months.

According to the Washington Post who quoted several experts and officials as saying reported that US president Donald Trump's chosen option was calculated; he didn't approve everything the Ukrainians asked for but nonetheless crossed the line of approving lethal sales.Earlier this year, discarding the censure that arming Ukraine could be seen as provocative, US Defense Secretary James Mattis stated,"Defensive weapons are not provocative unless you're an aggressor, and clearly, Ukraine is not an aggressor, since it's their own territory where the fighting is occurring.

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