US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, at a hearing in the US Senate Appropriations Committee, said that he agrees with the opinion of the commander in chief of NATO forces in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, about the high likelihood of militias preparing for a new offensive in eastern Ukraine.
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This was reported by the Voice of America.
“General Breedlove is right. There are every indication that the separatists in eastern Ukraine, no doubt backed by Russia, are preparing for a new round of hostilities. And we support Ukraine with defense weapons,” Carter said.
Earlier, on May 1, the commander-in-chief of NATO forces in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, accused Russia of allegedly using the calm in the Donbass to regroup its troops for a possible further offensive.