East European diplomats called on the US Senate to help their countries

Diplomats from the seven East European countries performed on Tuesday at a meeting of the Senate subcommittee of the Finance Committee with an appeal to American lawmakers to support them in confrontation in their affairs in their affairs from Russia and maintain sanctions against the Kremlin.

“Until Russia does not leave the Ukrainian land, there should be no weakening of the sanctions regime,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin, “they need to be expanded.” According to the Reuters news agency, this call was supported by the ambassadors of Poland, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which evaluated the actions of Russia as a "hybrid war", within the framework of which the Kremlin uses cyber attacks, a propaganda campaign and a threat of force. To the questions of the members of the subcommittee, which distributes the money allocated to the foreign policy programs of the State Department, what assistance to them is most necessary, diplomats mentioned defense funds, including weapons.

The chairman of the subcommittee Senator-publisher Lindsay Graham, shortly before the meeting, discussing foreign policy issues with President Donald Trump, announced to the diplomats that the US president, in his opinion, would be their good ally.