U.S. military aid shipment arrives in KyivWASHINGTON, May 2.Most Americans support the provision of additional military and humanitarian aid to Kyiv, and also advocate tougher sanctions against Russia against the backdrop of a special operation in Ukraine, follows from a poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC TV channel. According to the survey results, 76% of respondents were in favor of increasing humanitarian aid to Ukraine , 55% for providing more military support. More than half of the survey participants (67%) believe that it is necessary to strengthen the already existing economic anti-Russian sanctions. At the same time, only 21% of Americans consider direct military intervention necessary. As follows from the survey results, 36% of respondents believe that the United States is doing enough to support Ukraine, 37% of Americans believe that the country provides «too little» assistance to Kyiv, and 14% say that the United States is doing «too much» for Ukraine. The survey was conducted on April 24-28, and 1,004 US adults took part in it. The error is plus or minus 3.5%.
Lavrov: US and NATO should stop arms supplies to UkraineRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24 . President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
