There’s a lot of noise and lack of clarity about where the Trump Administration stands on its efforts to work out a peace agreement in Ukraine. Reuters added to the noise with a report late yesterday claiming that the National Security Council has crafted a new set of sanctions against Russia which are supposed to put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, but the decision remains to be made by President Trump. An unnamed official told Reuters that the proposed sanctions target Gazprom and major entities involved in the natural resources and banking sectors.
Reuters trots out Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO and partisan of the Kiev regime, to regurgitate the NATO narrative to pin the blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin for refusing to agree to a ceasefire.
Meanwhile, confusion reigns at the State Department. “If there is no progress between the two parties, we would step back as a mediator,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters at a news briefing on May 3, reported RT. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News host Sean Hannity later: “We’re not going to give up on it in the sense that we’re not going to be ready to help if we can.” He added that the final call is up to U.S. President Donald Trump. “At some point in time, it either has to be something that can happen or we all need to move on. That’ll be a decision the president will have to make.”
