WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday that provides a $1 billion loan guarantee for Ukraine and imposes new sanctions on Russia for its annexation of Crimea.
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Children walk past a trainload of KAMAZ Russian military trucks after their arrival at Ostryakovo railway station, some 20 km outside near the Crimean capital Simferopol, on April 1, 2014. The Crimean crisis has sparked the most explosive East-West confrontation since the Cold War and fanned fears in Kiev that Russian President Vladimir Putin now intends to push his troops into southeast Ukraine. AFP PHOTO/ YURIY LASHOV