The White House refused, this Wednesday (12), Saying whether the government of US President Donald Trump has any planned compliance mechanism if Russia breaks a ceasefire proposed by the US with Ukraine.
“Well, this is obviously a great hypothetical question that I won’t comment, because we haven’t got there yet,” White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
“The current state of things is that the Ukrainians agreed with a ceasefire, the Ukrainians agreed with the peace plan that was placed at the table yesterday in Saudi Arabia by the Secretary of State and our National Security Counselor, with whom I just spoke before coming here,” she said.
Leavitt said national security counselor Mike Waltz spoke to his Russian colleague earlier today, and that the envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff is traveling to Moscow this week to ask Russia to sign the plan. She described the state of negotiations as “in the tenth of peace line” and said it now fits “to the Russians agree with this plan.”
But she refused to say whether President Donald Trump planned to call Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to exert direct pressure to commit to ceasefire.
“I don’t have a reading about the president’s calls, but as the president has always done, if this call happens, he will warn you,” Leavitt said.
Asked if he planned to talk to Putin this week to discuss the ceasefire proposal, Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday: “I think so.”
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