United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution with its diplomatic and economic rivals in Mexico, particularly Great Britain and Germany, meant that foreign powers affected the way the Mexican situation played out. When U.S. agents discovered that the German merchant ship, the "Ypiranga", was carrying arms to Huerta's regime, President Wilson ordered troops to the port of Veracruz to stop the ship from docking. The U.S. did not declare war on Mexico city but the U.S. troops carried out a skirmish against Huerta's forces in Veracruz. The "Ypiranga" managed to dock at another port, which infuriated Wilson. On April 9, 1914, Mexican officials in the port of
Timeline of the war in Donbass (April–June 2017) armoured personnel carriers, armoured fighting vehicles, tanks and "Grad-P" single rocket launchers. At Novoselivka, Ukrainian positions were hit by heavy machine guns and antitank rockets, while marines in the Ukrainian strongholds of Hnutove and Pavlopil were harassed with small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire. Around Donetsk city and Horlivka, rebel forces fired small arms, rocket launchers and 82 mm mortars at Ukrainian rdoubts near Zaitseve. Pro-Russian armoured fighting vehicles, meanwhile, engaged Ukrainian positions at Troitske and Novhorodske, which also came under small arms and heavy machine gun fire. Antitank rockets landed in Pisky. In the northern section of the