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                NATO, Ukraine Discuss Possible Alliance Support

   by VOA News

   NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Ukrainian Prime
   Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday discussed possible support the
   Western alliance could offer to bolster Kyiv's defense capabilities.

   In particular, Rasmussen and Yatsenyuk discussed the creation of a NATO
   trust fund to help boost Kyiv's defenses in such areas as command and
   control, communications and cyber defense, Ukraine's government said in
   a statement after a meeting between the two men in Ukraine's capital.

   The provision of lethal aid by the alliance to Ukrainian armed forces
   battling pro-Moscow separatists in the country's east does not appear
   to have been discussed.

   Rasmussen arrived in Kyiv as NATO said Russia had again increased troop
   levels on its borders with Ukraine to 20,000 and as both the alliance
   and the United States expressed concern over a possible ground invasion
   of eastern Ukraine by Moscow in support of pro-Russia rebels. Some
   sources have suggested that Moscow could send in troops under the guise
   of "peacekeepers."

   Some information provided by Reuters.
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