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(NewsNation) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has unilaterally announced a impermanent ceasefire successful his nation's struggle with Ukraine acceptable to statesman May 8 and extremity May 11, the second day coinciding with Russia's yearly solemnisation of its triumph implicit the Nazis successful World War II.
"We're going to look astatine what Putin does, not what helium says," State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" connected Monday erstwhile asked astir the ceasefire and its imaginable to extremity the war. "We request to spot existent enactment that indicates these parties, successful peculiar President Putin, is superior astir stopping the carnage."
Russia's penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022 started a warfare that has since go the deadliest struggle successful Europe since World War II. The announcement of the unilateral ceasefire followed U.S. President Donald Trump's weekend meeting with Ukrainian person Volodymyr Zelenskyy, aft which Trump said Ukraine whitethorn beryllium consenting to cede Crimea to Russia successful speech for peace.
Russia illegally annexed Crimea successful 2014. Previously, Ukraine had stated that it would not see immoderate bid statement with Russia that would effect successful the nonaccomplishment of the region, a stance it continues to stress publicly.
Bruce said that if Russia and Ukraine are incapable to scope a bid statement connected their own, the U.S. volition "begin to look astatine different options" to extremity hostilities, with accrued economical sanctions connected Russia being 1 specified option.
"The further sanctions the president hinted astatine indicates that we're not going to locomotion away, that this matters to us," Bruce told Vargas. "If anyone tin get a (peace deal) done, it's President Trump."
