KIEV, Feb. 26 – Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who now heads the Ukrainian Advisory International Reform Council, said he was meeting with U.S. lawmakers and officials in Washington "increasing legislative pressure" to provide weapons to Ukraine.

Saakashvili wrote in a February 25 post on his Facebook page that "never have so many [U.S.] lawmakers agreed to meet with me, even when I was president: 34 meetings in three days."