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US Should Provide Lethal Assistance to Ukraine

January 30, 2015

Washington needs to do more to get Russia to change course. That means giving the Ukrainian military sufficient means to make further aggression so costly that Putin and the Russian army are deterred from escalating the fight.
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France Sending Tanks To Poland

January 30, 2015

France is pledging tanks and armored vehicles to bolster NATO forces in Poland, where leaders are increasingly uneasy about Russia.
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Pentagon Official Urges NATO to Focus on Innovative Weapons

January 29, 2015

From Andrea Shalal, Reuters: U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work on Wednesday urged NATO allies to develop and make more innovative weapons, and said bold action was needed to stay ahead of rapid weapons development by China, Russia and other countries.
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Spanish Patriot Missiles in Turkey Now Operational

January 28, 2015

Spanish troops joined NATO's Patriot anti-ballistic missile deployment in Adana, Turkey on Monday (26 January 2015), replacing a Dutch unit which had been stationed there since January 2013.
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Former Ambassador to NATO: US Should Provide Lethal Military Aid to Ukraine Now

January 27, 2015

Mr Putin has demonstrated no interest in ending the conflict or finding a workable political solution.
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US Examining Sites in Eastern Europe for Pre-Positioning 220 Armored Vehicles

January 27, 2015

U.S. Army Europe will soon dispatch a survey team to eastern Europe to scout locations for tanks and other military hardware as part of a broader effort to bolster the U.S. military presence in a region rattled by Russia's intervention in Ukraine, the Army's top commander in Europe said Friday.
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NATO Chief: 'The Foreign Forces in Ukraine Are Russian'

January 26, 2015

We have just held an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission.
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Obama Goes Out of His Way to Exclude Military Response to Russian Aggression in Ukraine

January 26, 2015

I've been very clear that it would not be effective for us to engage in a military conflict with Russia on this issue, but what we can do is to continue to support Ukraine's ability to control its own territory.
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NATO Military Leaders See Need to Address Multiple Threats

January 23, 2015

NATO is focused on strategies to deal with its two biggest threats -- Russian aggression to its east, and the threat of terrorism from its south, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.
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Threat of New Russian Incursion as Violence Flares in Ukraine

January 22, 2015

There are signs Russian forces are building up their presence in eastern Ukraine, where fighting in recent days between Ukrainian troops and separatists has intensified, NATO Supreme Allied Command Gen. Philip Breedlove said Thursday.
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