Parubiy hopes for Washington's decision on arms provision to Ukraine by yearend

He said this to journalists on Thursday after a meeting with Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Paul Ryan, Ukrinform reported. "We discussed, actually, an increase in the funding [to help Ukraine] in the budget [of the US] for 2018 and, of course, we discussed the issue of providing Ukraine with lethal defensive weapons," the Verkhovna Rada chairman said.