Defense agreements announced during a visit by the Ukrainian president to Washington this month will provide Ukraine with access to defensive military equipment of the sort needed to combat Russian-backed separatists in the east, according to Reuters.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced that a large number of agreements were reached during his visit to France on Monday, June 26, according to TV Channel 112 Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko calls on the Western partners to act more decisively to make the Russian Federation implement the Minsk agreements, an UNIAN correspondent reports following the president's joint press conference with Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, held in the residence of the German Federal Government, Schloss Meseberg, in the town of Gransee, Brandenburg.