The U.S. will no longer mediate peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, the State Department announced Friday. Tammy Bruce, spokesman for State, told reporters that American diplomats would no longer “fly around the world at the drop of a hat” for talks with the two warring countries.
“We will continue to help, but we will no longer fly around the world as mediators in meetings,” she said. “Now it is up to the two sides, the time has come when they must present and develop concrete ideas on how to end this conflict. It will be up to them.”