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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • In Kiev for Ukraine’s Independence Day, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis signaled that the U.S. was considering sending weapons to Ukraine. State and Defense Department officials have recommended that the U.S. provide defensive weapons including antitank missiles. President Trump, who has consistently taken a more conciliatory position toward Russia than his top advisers have, has yet to take up the matter. As skirmishes with separatists continue, we visited a combat training center in Russia associated with the Night Wolves, a motorcycle club under U.S. sanctions for its support of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. _____ • In Spain, the initial unity among the national government and the separatist leaders of Catalonia after the terrorist attacks last week has already subsided. They are back at the usual squabbles as the clock ticks toward a Catalan independence referendum on Oct. 1. Our correspondent notes that these divisions also have practical security implications that the attack plotters perhaps managed to exploit. A march in Barcelona planned for tomorrow could show how much these divisions are reflected in the broader public. (Above, King Felipe VI stood between the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, and the Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, at a vigil last week.) _____ • In Washington, our reporters look at the efforts by the new White House chi... Link to the full article to read more