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Investing.com -- The Trump administration has discontinued an inter-agency working group that was established to develop strategies for pressuring Russia to accelerate peace talks with Ukraine.
The group, which was formed earlier in the spring, began losing momentum in May when participants realized that President Donald Trump was not inclined to take a more confrontational approach toward Moscow, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday.
During his presidential campaign, Trump had promised to end the war in Ukraine on his first day in office. In recent months, however, he has expressed growing frustration with the lack of progress in peace efforts.
The president has started suggesting that the United States might completely withdraw from its role as a peace broker in the conflict.
"It lost steam toward the end because the president wasn’t there. Instead of doing more, maybe he wanted to do less," one official said, according to the report.
As Trump’s position shifted away from active engagement in the peace process, the working group’s mission reportedly became increasingly irrelevant.
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