State Department Press Secretary Tammy Bruce joins ‘America Reports’ to explain the United States’ involvement in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and what it means for the path to peace.

The United States will no longer serve as a mediator in the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, the U.S. State Department announced. "We will continue to help, but we will no longer fly around the world as mediators,

Washington is preparing to strike key sectors of Russia's economy following the failure of Trump's peace initiatives, according to Reuters. According to three officials and a source familiar with the matter,

Washington-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have largely boiled down to a diamond-shaped peninsula about the size of Massachusetts.

Amid reports that a U.S. peace proposal might include recognizing Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea, President Donald Trump denied Ukraine was being pressured to accept the move — while also asserting Ukraine had given up the peninsula in 2014 "without firing a shot.

The Russian Federation demands to recognize Crimea as part of its territory in order to disrupt negotiations on ending the full-scale war, said Borys Babin, an expert from the “Reintegration of Crimea” Association in the material by RBC-Ukraine "Trump changing the game: Why Crimea suddenly came up in peace talks".