Moscow - Kyiv, March 10 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - US President Barack Obama abandoned the idea of supplying lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. German Ambassador to Washington Peter Wittig said this in an interview with the Associated Press.
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The meeting between the leaders of the United States and Germany took place in February. According to Wittig, Obama agreed to delay the deliveries because he accepted Merkel's arguments about the importance of "giving some space for ongoing diplomatic and political efforts to continue," he was quoted as saying. "Vedomosti".
On February 12 in Minsk, the leaders of the Normandy Four detailed a plan to resolve the conflict in south-eastern Ukraine.
US officials claimed in early March that Obama had not yet made a decision on arms supplies to Ukraine.