President Barack Obama says the US is studying the option of supplying lethal defensive arms to Ukraine if diplomacy fails to end the crisis in the east. Russia had violated "every commitment" made in the failing Minsk agreement, he added, after talks with the German chancellor on a new peace deal.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
BBC: US ‘may supply arms to Ukraine’ (VIDEO)
Pro-Russian separatists go to the front armed on Feb. 9, 2015 in Uglegorsk, 6 kms southwest of Debaltseve.