The First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the representative of Ukraine in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, Iryna Gerashchenko, has raised security, humanitarian and environmental issues in Donbas and Crimea during her visit to the U.S., and her colleagues and Lithuanian partners talked about the 'Marshall Plan' for Ukraine.

"At meetings in the Congress, the Senate, the State Department, the think tanks, I focused on the security, humanitarian and environmental situation in the occupied Donbas and Crimea, on the violation of human rights there. I called on the United States to pay more attention and support not only the security sphere, but also the humanitarian situation, more actively and loudly demand from the Russian Federation the release of hostages (in Russian prisons and in the occupied territories). In general, the security issues, the Minsk groups are of great interest and attention in Washington," she wrote on her Facebook page on Wednesday.

In turn, according to Gerashchenko, her colleagues - parliamentarians Hanna Hopko and Ostap Yednak - together with friends from Lithuania, in particular, with ex-Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, "promoted the programs of economic and investment support of Ukraine, the so-called Marshall Plan."

I still have meetings in the Pentagon, the State Department, with congressmen and senators.

She also positively assessed the signing by U.S. President Donald Trump of the defense budget, in which Ukraine is allocated $350 million.