epa04678534 Pro-Russian rebels and other people stand on a damaged bridge across Severskiy Donets river, near the eastern Ukrainian village of Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk area, Ukraine, 25 March 2015. A US resolution in favour of arms shipments to Ukraine was welcomed on 24 March by the government in Kiev and condemned as a call for war by Russian lawmakers in Moscow. ‘I thank US House of Representatives for a resolution calling to provide Ukraine with military assistance. Important that it is bipartisan’, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said on Twitter. A resolution passed Monday in Washington urges the Barack Obama administration to provide ‘lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine before it is too late’ and criticises the ‘tepid’ US response to Ukraine’s request for military aid. EPA/VAKHTANG BARKALYA