Obama Urges Putin to Make Choice Over Ukraine
President Barack Obama wants Vladimir Putin to take steps to rebuild the trust shattered by Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
Obama’s comment came as he visited Poland on Tuesday, the first stop on his three-country European trip which is intended, in part, to reassure allies in Eastern Europe unnerved by Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.
Putin “has a choice to make” on Ukraine, Obama said during a news conference in Warsaw, calling on the Russian President to continue to pull back troops from the border with Ukraine, persuade pro-Russian separatists to stand down and back Ukraine’s recent presidential election.