U.S. to keep tough line on Russia until peace plan fully implemented.
Despite Ukraine truce, US keeps tough line on Russia.
The U.S. assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland warned on Thursday that the United States would maintain economic sanctions imposed on Russia over its intervention in Ukraine until the terms of the peace plan are fully implemented.
“We will judge Russia and the separatists by their actions, not their words,” she said. “We will work with the EU to keep sanctions in place until the Minsk agreements are fully implemented. “And of course, Crimea sanctions remain in place so long as the Kremlin imposes its will on that piece of Ukrainian land,” she said.
Nuland was speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 8, as the cease-fire agreed in Minsk in February has been widely upheld in the past month.