epa04682108 Workers and Red Cross members move the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers onto a stretcher at the city morgue in Donetsk, Ukraine, 27 March 2015. The bodies of 22 Ukrainian soldiers, who were killed in an eastern conflict, were handed to Ukrainian side by separatist rebels on March 27. 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 23 March in Washington urges the Barack Obama administration to provide ‘non-lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine before it is too late’ and criticises the ‘tepid’ US response to Ukraine’s request for military aid. EPA/ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO