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Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.
Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

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18:49 18.9.2014

This from RFE/RL's correspondent Luke Johnson in Washington:

The White House announced a new $53 million aid package for Ukraine on September 18.

The package includes $46 million in security assistance for Ukraine's military and border guards, with $7 million directed toward international relief organizations for humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

The military aid includes body armor, helmets, vehicles, night- and thermal-vision devices, and countermortar radars.

The United States has thus far provided about $60 million in nonlethal military aid to Ukraine.

Some members of Congress from both parties have called for Washington to provide lethal aid and a total of up to $350 million in military aid.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked the U.S. congress for both lethal and nonlethal aid in an address to a joint session of Congress on September 18.

He is due to meet with President Barack Obama later in the day.

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If you missed it, watch Poroshenko's entire speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress here:

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We are ending the Ukraine live blog for today. Please check RFE/RL's home page for all the latest news developments overnight. And return here in the morning for more live blogging of the unfolding crisis in Ukraine.

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