White House: Ukraine Ceasefire ‘Unacceptable’

Washington is firmly opposed to a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, US National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said, branding any peace initiatives “unacceptable” in the current situation.

 The senior White House official made the remarks on Sunday in an interview with Fox News.  

Kirby touched on the upcoming visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, stating that should any peace initiatives come out of their meeting, Washington would reject them.

“What we have said before, and we’ll say it again today, that if coming out of this meeting, there’s some sort of call for a ceasefire, well, that’s just going to be unacceptable because all that’s going to do… is ratify Russian’s conquest to date,” Kirby stated.

Moscow and Beijing have been “increasing their cooperation and their relationship” lately, the official said, asserting that the two nations have joined to undermine and “rewrite” the so-called “rules of the game globally".

Russia and China “are two countries that are chafing against this international rules-based order that the United States and so many of our allies and partners have built up, since the end of World War II”, he added.