American diplomats call for using coronavirus to capitulate Russia
The United States should use the coronavirus epidemic and falling energy prices to force Russia to abandon its support for Donbass and also return Crimea to Ukraine.
Former US ambassadors to Kyiv Steven Pifer, John Herbst and William Taylor write about this in an article on the website of the American publication NPR, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to retired American diplomats, the United States can do this under the pretext of lifting sanctions on Russia with the help of the leaders of Germany and France.
“As the spread of the coronavirus and falling oil prices increasingly weigh on the Kremlin, the United States and its allies should offer to lift international sanctions against Russia if Putin stops his military incursions into Ukraine. President Trump and Congress can advance America's and the world's interests with bold action to help end this war. The Trump Administration and Congress must seize this opportunity...
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The coronavirus crisis may provide justification for the Kremlin to agree. Working closely with the leaders of Germany, France, and Ukraine, President Trump should propose to President Putin to cease hostilities, return the Donbass and international border to Ukrainian sovereignty, and lift the sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of the Donbass. If Putin were willing to withdraw from Crimea, other sanctions imposed against this illegal annexation could also be lifted,” the article says.
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