AP quotes Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko as saying during a visit to Kharkiv on Tuesday that "I don't have a slightest doubt that the decision to supply Ukraine with weapons will be made by the United States as well as by other partners of ours, because we need to have the capabilities to defend ourselves."
Unnamed U.S. officials had already expressed frustration over Poroshenko's statement to a joint session of the U.S. Congress that "one cannot win a war with blankets."
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Reaction from Moscow, via our newsroom and Russian news agencies, to Ukraine's announcement that Russian nationals will have to present international passports to enter Ukrainian territory from next month.
Presumably that would apply to Russians entering from annexed Crimea, since Ukraine has no border checks in place there anymore:
Moscow has urged Kyiv not to implement a decision requiring Russian citizens to show foreign-travel passports in order to enter Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced on February 3 that for security reasons, as of March 1 Russians would no longer be able to use domestic identifcation documents known as "internal passports" to cross the border.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on February 4 that it believes it is important that Kyiv maintain the current border-crossing rules for Russian citizens for "humanitarian reasons."
The ministry said Russia had not yet received official notification from Ukraine about the change, which Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk signed off on in a decree on February 3.
The change will require thousands of Russians who live or work near the Ukrainian border and cross it often to apply for passports.
Based on reporting by TASS and Interfax