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          US to Provide Ukraine With Additional $335M in Security Aid

   by Isabela Cocoli

   The White House says the United States will provide Ukraine with an
   additional $335 million in security assistance.

   The new aid was announced Thursday after a meeting between U.S. Vice
   President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in
   Washington.

   The White House also said that Biden told Poroshenko that efforts to
   form a stable, reform-oriented government were critical to unlocking
   international economic assistance, including a third $1 billion U.S.
   loan guarantee.

   Last May, the U.S. signed a second $1 billion loan guarantee deal for
   Ukraine, to help it rebuild its economy after Russia annexed Crimea in
   2014 and backed a separatist insurgency in the country's eastern Donbas
   region.

   Washington has supported Ukraine's pro-Western government but also been
   concerned by pervasive corruption.

   Ukraine's parliament sacked the country's chief prosecutor earlier this
   week over his alleged attempts not to pursue high-profile corruption
   cases.
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