Ukraine Embraces Idea of Full Ceasefire, Envoy to US Says

A shopping mall destroyed following a Russian drone attack, in Odesa, Ukraine.Photographer: Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP/Getty Images
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Ukraine unconditionally supports the idea of a full ceasefire with Russia that goes beyond the one-month energy infrastructure truce currently under discussion, the nation’s envoy to the US said.

“We embrace it wholeheartedly,” Ambassador Oksana Markarova said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Monday. “We need Russia to agree to that,” she said, adding “it takes two to dance.”