US will ‘no longer act as mediator’ between Ukraine & Russia after Putin refused to sign up to full ceasefire

THE US has announced it will no longer act as the mediator to negotiate a peace deal after Vladimir Putin refused to accept a full ceasefire.

The United States Department of State said the country is changing “the methodology of how we contribute” to the talks and will no longer “fly around the world at the drop of a hat” for meetings.

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State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said that the US will still support efforts to bring peace in war-torn Ukraine, but will step back from its direct role as a mediator.

It added that Kyiv and Moscow must now present “concrete” proposals for ending the war and should meet directly to resolve the conflict.

Bruce said: “We are not going to fly around the world at the drop of a hat to mediate meetings; that is now between the two parties, and now is the time that they need to present and develop concrete ideas about how this conflict is going to end.

“[Trump knows also that there is another part of the world, a whole globe that needs some attention.

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