--- title: VIDEO: John Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine description: As tensions smolder in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. has sent a warning. canonical: https://time.com/77542/kerry-warns-russia-over-ukraine/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-25T16:55:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:30:38.570Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch: John Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine og:description: As tensions smolder in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. has sent a warning. og:url: https://time.com/77542/kerry-warns-russia-over-ukraine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba3db4c074191cfa/69868c8b35ba6f0284c01b5c/kerry-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: John Kerry og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch: John Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine twitter:description: As tensions smolder in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. has sent a warning. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba3db4c074191cfa/69868c8b35ba6f0284c01b5c/kerry-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 25, 2014 4:55 PM UTC  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry makes a statement on Ukraine at the briefing room of the State Department April 24, 2014 in Washington, DC. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry makes a statement on Ukraine at the briefing room of the State Department April 24, 2014 in Washington, DC.Getty Images/Alex Wong by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 25, 2014 4:55 PM UTC With tensions smoldering in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. gave Russia a new warning Thursday. Saying Russia was using “the barrel of a gun and the force of the mob,” Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russian intelligence and special ops of actively working to destabilize eastern Ukraine. “For seven days, Russia has refused to take a single concrete step in the right direction. Not a single Russian official—not one—has publicly gone on television in Ukraine and called on the separatists to support the Geneva Agreement, to support the stand-down, to give up their weapons and get out of the Ukrainian buildings,” Kerry said, adding that “if Russia continues in this direction, it will not just be a grave mistake, it will be an expensive mistake.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/77542/kerry-warns-russia-over-ukraine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/77542/kerry-warns-russia-over-ukraine/"},"headline":"Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine","datePublished":"2014-04-25T16:55:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:30:38.570Z","description":"Kerry says Russia violating Geneva agreement","url":"https://time.com/77542/kerry-warns-russia-over-ukraine/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba3db4c074191cfa/69868c8b35ba6f0284c01b5c/kerry-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba3db4c074191cfa/69868c8b35ba6f0284c01b5c/kerry-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"John Kerry","caption":"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry makes a statement on Ukraine at the briefing room of the State Department April 24, 2014 in Washington, DC.","creditText":"Getty Images/Alex Wong","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/77542/kerry-warns-russia-over-ukraine/","name":"Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine"}}]}] ```