The U.S. Secretary of State has warned Russia of "consequences".
The U.S. says Nord Stream 2 will allow the Kremlin to use energy as a "political tool."
Poroshenko also announced agreement with Tillerson on joint coordination in security issues.
The United States and ]European Union have imposed sanctions on Russia over its illegal seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea and Moscow's role in the war in Donbas.
The Secretary also noted Russia must reverse the recent escalation in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit a number of European countries next week and discuss, among other things, the situation in Ukraine with European leaders, according to spokesperson for the U.S. Department Heather Nauert.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he prints out President Trump's tweets and takes them into consideration while planning foreign policy, according to The Hill.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says that his country is committed to improving relations with Russia, and the keystone is Ukraine, according to CNN.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in his column in The New York Times has said the United States has no illusions about today's regime in Russia.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday asked his Russian counterpart to reduce the levels of violence in eastern Ukraine, where Russian troops have intervened on the side of separatist militias in their ongoing clash with the Ukrainian government, according to POLITICO.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed the worsening of the situation in Donbas and the withdrawal of Russian officers from the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC), as reported by Poroshenko’s spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko.
Canadian Foreign Secretary Chrystia Freeland and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday, Dec 20, discussed possibilities for deploying a UN peacekeeping force in eastern Ukraine, that’s according to the remarks from the two officials’ joint press conference published on the U.S. State Department website.
Ukraine is blocking two major anticorruption efforts backtracking on its promise to implement energy reforms and second by going after the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Rada’s anti-corruption committee, according to U.S. Senator Chris Murphy who spoke at the Hearings of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation titled “European Energy Security: U.S. Interests and Coercive Russian Diplomacy” on Tuesday, Dec. 12.
The United States cannot accept Russian invasion of Ukraine that has become the basis for the very stringent sanctions regime, and will “return” to the of Crimea after the Donbas conflict is settled, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said at a meeting with diplomats in Washington Tuesday, Dec. 12.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held his tough line on Russia during a visit to Europe on Thursday, saying in front of his Russian counterpart that Washington would keep sanctions in place until Russian forces withdraw from Ukraine, according to Reuters.
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine remains the biggest threat to European security, and demands continued transatlantic unity in confronting that threat, U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson has told a press conference in Brussels where a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting was held, VOA reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Vienna next week, with Syria and Ukraine to be on the agenda, a senior State Department official has said, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says that the United States is committed to the success of an independent and whole Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko held a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the press service of the Ukrainian president wrote.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Monday to meet with Afghan leaders and reaffirm support for stability, according to Deutsche Welle.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed cooperation on the Syrian crisis, Middle East issues, and the agreement to bring peace to Ukraine in a meeting on Sunday, Lavrov’s spokeswoman said, according to Reuters.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson does not want diplomatic disputes between Washington and Moscow to escalate further and seeks an improvement of ties between the "two nuclear powers," a spokeswoman says, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
After coming under pressure from lawmakers, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has taken steps toward spending tens of millions of dollars to counter propaganda by Islamist extremists and governments such as Russia, according to POLITICO.
The United States remains firm in its support for Ukraine and values the friendship with Kyiv, according to the statement of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, made on behalf of the U.S. Government and released by the State Department on August 24.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the U.S. will respond by Sept. 1 to Russia's move to force a major reduction in American diplomatic staff, according to The Associated Press.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Russia is showing “some willingness” to start talking about a resolution to the crisis in Ukraine, The Associated Press reports.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin's senior aide Vladislav Surkov and United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has the unenviable task of exploring U.S.-Russian cooperation following Washington's latest sanctions on Russia and Moscow's expulsion of U.S. diplomats, according to Reuters.
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is resisting the pleas of State Department officials to spend nearly $80 million allocated by Congress for fighting terrorist propaganda and Russian disinformation, according to Politico.
President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson still oppose the Russia sanctions legislation passed by Congress, the nation's top diplomat reiterated Tuesday, even though Trump plans to sign the bill, according to the Washington Examiner.
The United States does not seek to topple the North Korean government and would like dialogue with Pyongyang at some point, but only on the understanding that it can never be a nuclear power, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon-Mobil CEO, may soon leave his post, according to CNN.
The U.S. Treasury Department says it is slapping Exxon Mobil Corp. with a $2 million fine for violating Russia sanctions while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the oil company's CEO, Politico reports.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko states that during the Kyiv visit of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday, July 9, important agreements were reached in cyber security area.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he was satisfied with the progress in Ukraine’s implementation of a number of reforms, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
Foreign Minister of Ukraine's strategic partner state continued the anti-Ukrainian line of his fellow party members. Warsaw felt it was becoming Washington’s leading partner in Europe and will try to play this card. The Ukrainian government in London reported on the reforms carried out and spoke on future transformation. Stratcom Dialogue was held in Riga. The G20 summit is “speaking” with a Ukrainian accent. Ahead of Rex Tillerson’s visit to Kyiv he appointed a special envoy on Ukraine.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on the Russian Federation to exert influence on separatists in eastern Ukraine to achieve full ceasefire in Donbas, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko following their meeting in Kyiv July 9 has said that the Special Representative on Ukraine settlement Kurt Volker has been appointed because of Washington’s disappointment with the lack of progress in the Minsk process, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko following their meeting in Kyiv July 9 has assured the Ukrainian side that the U.S. sanctions against Russia will remain in place until Russia ceases its aggression against Ukraine, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during his joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Kyiv July 9 has urged Russia to show good will for a peaceful settlement in Donbas and stop the killings and attacks in eastern Ukraine, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Kyiv July 9 said that the U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, would stay in Kyiv for several days to coordinate further steps, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko during a joint press conference with U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson in Kyiv July 9 said he had been informed in detail about the talks between the U.S. and Russian presidents at the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, where he held talks with President Petro Poroshenko and other officials.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Ukraine to reaffirm U.S. support for the former Soviet republic following the first meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin two days earlier, according to Bloomberg.