The House of Representatives of the United States Congress foresees the allocation of $ 150 million for military support of Ukraine.

This is reported by the "Deutsche Welle".

Provision of funds to Kiev is laid down in the law on appropriations for military needs in the new financial year - until October 1, 2017, which was adopted by a majority vote of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, March 8.

The document was supported by 371 deputies of the lower house of the US Congress, 48 ??parliamentarians were "against".

The document indicates that these funds will be available to the Pentagon in order to provide Ukraine with military support, including, in particular, the provision of lethal defensive weapons and equipment, logistics support, intelligence support for the Ukrainian army and the national security forces, training of Ukrainian armed forces personnel and Like.

As the "Observer" reported earlier, two representatives of the American Democratic Party Senator Dick Derbin and Congressman Mike Quigley earlier said that it was time for Washington to provide Ukraine with lethal weapons so that it could protect its people from Russian aggression.