putman invaded crimea holding a sham a sham referendum at the shale the russians observe the claimed% voted to join russia. in early april putman sent his army and security forces into southeastern ukraine to generate illegal arm formations and public stomach pub but governments. you can see this on the map in the right hand portion, in the eastern portion of the country. 14,000 ukrainians have died in the war in dumb mass and more die each week. in july 2014 these russian led forces shot down a civilian airliner killing all 298 people on board. we come of the europeans, and most of the west impose economic sanctions and kick the russians out of the g8. we and nato began to provide aid to the ukrainian armed forces and terms of training, advice, and weapons. it is this security assistance that is out the heart of the controversy that we are discussing today. the pro-russian president this run out of keefe and let the armed forces deteriorate to the point of ruin in response to the russian invasion the new ukrainian of eight authorities with an amazing outpouring of support from regul