The US Secretary of State John Kerry, today, warned of tougher sanctions should Russia fail to withdraw it’s presence from Ukraine, reports the Associated Press.
Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry said,
Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry said,
“What we see from Russia is an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign state and create a contrived crisis with paid operatives across an international boundary.”
“We have made it clear that Russia needs to take concrete steps to disavow separatist action sin Eastern Ukraine, pull back its forces outside the country – which they say they have begun to do with the movement of one battalion – and demonstrate that they are prepared to come to these discussions to do what is necessary to de-escalate.”