article_snippet: The heavily armoured vehicles form part of $75-million worth of non-lethal military aid to Ukraine from the US .
article_snippet: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said: 'I have just personally seen - having been behind the wheel of the Humvee - that it is an extremely effective, extremely powerful, extremely good military vehicle which Ukrainian air forces, Ukrainian special divisions, the Ukrainian army are waiting for today.'
article_snippet: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told Ukraine Today: 'And I as the president of Ukraine, as commander-in-chief, on behalf of the Ukrainian people, would like to thank to the United States   for the United States   comprehensive and firm position regarding the resolution of the conflict in the Donbass, for recognising Russia as an aggressor which annexed Crimea and which launched direct military aggression in particular areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.'
article_snippet: So far, President Barack Obama has decided against equipping Ukraine with offensive military equipment, although the armoured Humvee vehicles donated to Ukraine have turrets which can be easily fitted with heavy machine guns.
article_snippet: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, pictured, thanked the United States for the delivery .
article_snippet: President Poroshenko said the Humvees were
article_snippet: 'very powerful and extremely good military vehicles' President Poroshenko met with the flight crew, pictured,  and representatives of the US Embassy in Kiev .
article_snippet: Russia has always denied assertions by Ukraine, backed by the United States and the European Union, that Russia has been sending arms and troops across the border to support the pro-Moscow separatists.
highlights_snippet: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko praised the new military hardware .
  