The United States has supplied the Ukrainian Armed Forces with aid worth a total of about $25 million, a Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.

On Thursday, Ukrainian Defense Minster Stepan Poltorak and the chairman of the Energy Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fred Upton, had a meeting at which they discussed the situation in eastern Ukraine and prospects of further U.S. military and political support for Ukraine, the spokeswoman, Viktoria Kushnir, told a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

Poltorak thanked the United States for its aid and said American political support for Ukraine was also important.

He and Upton also discussed prospects for further U.S.-Ukrainian cooperation in efforts to settle the conflict in eastern Ukraine.