Putin's "Peace Plan," according to our Ukrainian Service political cartoonist Zhenya O.
The website of Republican Senator John McCain, who has frequently jousted publicly with Vladimir Putin, has posted a response to Russian reports that he's been added to an expanded sanctions list:
“While I suppose this means I’ll spend this Easter in Sedona rather than Siberia, I couldn’t be more proud of being sanctioned by Vladimir Putin for standing up for freedom and human rights for the Russian people and against Putin’s deadly aggression in Ukraine. I will never stop my efforts to support democracy, free speech, and the rule of law in Russia.”
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who now is serving as an adviser to the administration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, speaking today at the summit of the European People's Party ahead of the EU Summit in Brussels:
"I am the chairman of the advisory board to the Ukraine's president, and we know that every day we gather with him at his office and we speak about peace and every day as we speak about peace we hear that new soldiers have been killed, new civilians have been killed. How does it work to permanently ask for somebody to do everything to have peace and then at the same time to accept that there [are] casualties? So that is why we need Europe."