Ukraine: USA is threatening more sanctions to Russia

The United States are prepared to toughen sanctions on Russia if Putin does not retract on pressure on the interim Government of Ukraine, in particular through interference in the autonomous region of Crimea. The White House is still awaiting the response from the Kremlin to the American proposal of a diplomatic solution to the conflict that has already been placed in the document as being between Russia and Ukraine, which Moscow refuses to form perentória.

At a press conference held Tuesday in Washington, the White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, reinforced the position expressed on the eve by also spokesman of u.s. State Department Jen Psaki, which said that "the United States need to see concrete evidence that Russia is prepared to discuss the proposal to facilitate diplomatic dialogue with Ukraine".

"There have been and there will be more punishments for the actions of Russia. We have a flexible tool that will allow us to calibrate these punishments depending on the decision that Russia take ", he said, this time, Jay Carney, referring to the u.s. decision announced Thursday to freeze visas to" responsible or accomplices of threats against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, "which include Russian and Ukrainian citizens. It is also open the freezing of accounts in the United States and the ban on American business with Russians and Ukrainians are considered to be within the discretion referred to.

The meeting, however, proposed a week ago by Sergi Lavrov to John Kerry to discuss in Moscow the situation in Ukraine is still unable to perform, in the North American optical. This Tuesday morning, the American Secretary of State has telephoned the Russian counterpart to see if there was already a Kremlin response to the proposal tabled by Washington. "It was shown willingness to continue the talks with Minister Lavrov, including this week, but the context has to be correct and the goal should be the protection of immunity and sovereignty of Ukraine. We haven't seen this in the response we received, "Jen Psaki.

The interim Prime Minister of Ukraine moves, eventually, to the United States this week. Arseny Yatseniuk has referred to be received at the White House, in Washington, and in the United Nations Security Council in New York.

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