Pro-Russian cease-fire is an insult As a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Director, I am outraged that the U.S. is trying to ram an inexplicably one-sided, pro-Russian cease-fire agreement down Ukraine’s throat. Adding insult to injury, President Trump is reportedly pressuring Ukraine to simply accept these humiliating terms as is or lose its little remaining American support. I am totally baffled why the U.S. is arrogating the right on Ukraine’s behalf to cede to Russia everything it could realistically expect — territory it does not yet control, forced reductions in Ukrainian force structure, barring NATO troops from backstopping any...