Obama didn't give any weapons to Ukraine and he gave very little of anything else. No offense, but your Ukrainian model friend sounds brainwashed.
O my
You need to do a lot more research
This video deserves its own thread
Please do not comment until watching at least the first 30 minutes
Better yet the full hour
“ Propaganda, Mass psychology, and the Ukraine”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2VqxOQ6b5gE
https://www.rt.com/usa/254757-house-committee-lethal-aid-ukraine/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/11/politics/ukraine-us-sends-money-humvees-non-lethal-aid/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-us-house-reps-back-1-billion-in-ukraine-lethal-aid/
It's hard to really know what we're sending them... officially or behind the scenes or through third parties. My friend did say she was in the eastern part of the country one time when the Russians were supposedly shelling a town... but everyone there could see that the shells were coming from the west and not from Russia to the east.