President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko claimed that US President Donald Trump promised the defensive and technical support for the fight against the aggression of Russia. He claimed this at the interview to Fox Business.
‘President Trump said that the US is ready to support Ukraine including with the military and technical sphere’, Poroshenko said noting that this support will be limited only by the defense weapons and there were no talks about lethal arms.
According to him, the US will send its military strength to the Eastern European region for the first time in a long period.
Petro Poroshenko and Donald Trump held a meeting in New York on September 21. During the meeting, they discussed the issues of bilateral cooperation between the countries and the expansion of anti-Russian sanctions. Moreover, the US supported the proposal of Ukraine regarding the introduction of UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas.