The U.S. State Department said Friday that it’s difficult to achieve a political solution to the Ukraine crisis when there are still thousands of Russian forces fomenting unrest in the country.
Department spokesman John Kirby, responding to comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a St. Petersburg business forum, said it would be “heartening” if Russia fully complied with the Minsk accords outlining the cease-fire agreement, which were negotiated during multiparty talks in the Belarusian capital in February.
The United States knows that the cost of sanctions imposed by the West on Russian individuals and businesses as a result of the …read more
Source: Voice of America
